Juanita Gonzalez-Tobon

Juanita Gonzalez-Tobon
  • Ph.D (c) Design and creation / Msc. Education /Industrial designer
  • Pontifical Xavierian University

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Introduction
Juanita Gonzalez-Tobon currently works at Design Department of, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. She is currently doing her PhD in Design and Creation, at Universidad de Caldas. Juanita does research in design cognition, design education, metacognitive and multimodality processes at the design activity.
Current institution
Additional affiliations
January 2013 - present
Pontifical Xavierian University
Position
  • Professor (Assistant)
Education
August 2015 - July 2021
University of Caldas
Field of study
  • Design
January 2010 - March 2012
Pontifical Xavierian University
Field of study
  • Cognition and creativity in educational systems
January 1996 - September 2002
Pontifical Xavierian University
Field of study
  • Industrial design

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Publications (15)
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La bitácora, un instrumento utilizado en los procesos de enseñanza-aprendizaje en diseño, suele utilizarse como registro del proyecto y no como un medio de externalización de los modelos mentales de los estudiantes y su transformación durante el curso de una asignatura. En este artículo de reflexión teórica se indaga por cómo la bitácora de diseño...
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This paper presents a literature review conducted to establish the current state of the discussion on the topic of metacognition in design education based on a review of empirical studies that present the results of educational interventions that introduced aspects of metacognition to design students. Inspired by Edwin Hutchins' seminal book "Cogni...
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This paper introduces empathic design as a framework and a strategy that can be adopted by the emerging field of experience design (XD) to create meaningful experiences connected with people's lives and needs. The paper presents the rationale behind the emergence of empathic design, the traits that characterize this approach to design, a collection...
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El presente documento expone una aproximación conceptual a las relaciones intersemióticas en los procesos de construcción de sentido mediados por la bitácora de diseño, como facilitadora de estrategias didácticas en los procesos de enseñanza y aprendizaje del diseño. Las relaciones intersemióticas en la literatura se presentan como conjuntos de int...
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Abstract This article presents the concept of intersemiotic emergence as a didactic strategy for design learning, discussed from the perspective of social semiotics and communication studies. With this strategy, students orchestrate autotelic relationships using modes and personalized semiotic resources. The primary value of intersemiotic emergence...
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Este libro condensa los hallazgos más importantes de tres proyectos de investigación que indagaron cuáles eran las creencias y actitudes de los maestros en cuanto al lenguaje figurado y su presencia en escenarios educativos; cómo procesan metáforas, modismos e ironías jóvenes con síndrome de Asperger/autismo de alto funcionamiento y lectores con di...
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This article aims to report the transition from intuitive to intentional projective activities in design recorded in the visual modes of sketchbook to analyze the metacognitive processes of design students. Phenomenography was used as an empirical sampling method to diagnose the sketchbooks of industrial design and graphic design students. The obse...
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The reconfiguration of the historical and cultural conditions of modernity in which design emerged as a field of studies and practices, demands a renewed approach to discussions about its nature, perspectives and possibilities outside the epistemological discussions that have taken up hundreds of hours of effort and pages of published work by the c...
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The reconfiguration of the historical and cultural conditions of modernity in which design emerged as a field of studies and practices, demands a renewed approach to discussions about its nature, perspectives and possibilities outside the epistemological discussions that have taken up hundreds of hours of effort and pages of published work by the c...
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La siguiente ponencia presenta un esquema que permite ubicar las diferentes investigaciones finalizadas y en curso durante los 10 años de la línea de Gestión y Transmisión del Conocimiento del Doctorado en Diseño y Creación de la Universidad de Caldas. Se propone la ubicación de las investigaciones en relación a campos de conocimiento y enfoques de...
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This paper introduces empathic design as a framework and a strategy that can be adopted by the emerging field of experience design (XD) to create meaningful experiences connected with people’s lives and needs. The paper presents the rationale behind the emergence of empathic design, the traits that characterize this approach to design, a collection...
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Las concepciones implícitas que se encuentran en la mente de las personas derivan en actitudes y comportamientos específicos, los cuales muchas veces no son objeto de reflexión. De allí surge la importancia de comprender las concepciones que sobre creatividad poseen los estudiantes, docentes y directivos de la Carrera de Diseño Industrial, programa...

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