The AX1 Sessions: A Masterclass Series in Good Design & its transferability into the Higher Education Classroom
The Dean of Teaching and Learning is delighted to host this series of Masterclasses in conjunction with Dr Threase Kessie, Design Innovation.
All of the masterclasses will focus on understanding how professional designers have developed the skills of intellectual curiosity, creativity, adaptability, and empathy in their work, and how this understanding might help lecturers consider alternative ways of fostering these skills in the classroom.
We are delighted to welcome Roisin Markham, BDT Consultancy Ltd., to lead the first session entitled 'How do we create a future worth living into?' on Thursday 15th February at 2pm.
This session will be an interactive workshop exploring living with questions, post-growth society, doughnut economics, imagination and the value of design in experiential learning.
To attend, please register at our Eventbrite link.
Masterclass Series Details:
Thursday 15 February – Roisin Markham, BDT Consultancy Ltd.
Thursday 29 February – Leah O’Donoghue, Illustrator and Visual Note Taker
Thursday 7 March – Eimear Mc Nally, Graphic Recorder, Illustrator and Systems Thinker
Thursday 14 March – Graham Nolan, Accenture
TBC – Eilis Skelly, Insight Innovate
TBC – Trevor Vaugh, Public Service Design Lead
Time:
All masterclasses will take place from 2pm to 4pm
Venue:
AX1, Auxilia Building, North Campus.
Each of the speakers will prepare a Design Thinking exercise which will be completed by the attendees at the end of each masterclass, which will see them consider how they could transfer what they have learned about fostering in intellectual curiosity, creativity, adaptability and empathy, and how they could apply this to their own Teaching and Learning.
Seminar Series Poster 2023-2024