Mia A. Tedjosaputro

Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University · Department of Architecture

The authors posit that the use of still images in architectural pedagogy to teach principles of design- rhythm and repetition, symmetry and asymmetry, scale and proportion, and other related principles is a very static methodology which could be improved in terms of student engagement and retention by making the input materials more dynamic. It is...

Increasing demands and needs of utilizing Virtual Reality (VR) technologies have pushed many commercial and non-commercial industries and institutions to innovate, including in the education sector. This paper presents a preliminary study of understanding the perception of undergraduate Architecture students in the first Sino-Foreign University in...

This paper focuses on a collaboration between three researchers from two universities in Zhejiang province to explore the pedagogical value of hands-on experiential learning using non-standard materials (in this case, bamboo). The second aim of the project was to explore how Augmented Reality (AR) might be used to improve the efficiency of the lear...

The emerging field of digital design in architecture has changed the way designers think and the way it should be taught. This paper looks at six design educational exercises which have adopted digital tools using various systems. Discussions are rooted in digital design cognition, digital design eco-system and pedagogy. This paper attempts to obse...

Design entrepreneurship is growing significantly in most countries. More designers are seeking full- and part-time roles as entrepreneurs than before. With growing global market competitiveness, designers must pay more attention to design entrepreneurship. This study investigated the domain specificity of creativity in five young design entrepreneu...

This PhD project embarks on a journey to investigate how novice designers behave during the idea generation stage. It is the first stage when a designer becomes aware of design briefs or requirements. Key results are presented briefly. In general the study confirms that sketching provides better assistance in comparison to mental imagery. These res...

This paper explores the potential of a newly devised visualization tool to facilitate empirical studies related to external and internal design processes. It also highlights the importance of viewing the designing process through the lens of embodied cognition, how designer’s mind-body-(design) environment system and its interactions should be con-...

Aiming to illustrate the potential of mental imagery in designing, this paper provides comparisons between the use of sketching and mental imagery derived from 24 think-aloud design sessions. Unsurprisingly, sketching is superior compared to mental imagery. However, contrary to popular belief, mental imagery signals unexpected perspectives in terms...

This paper seeks to understand the interplay between the acts of pen-and-paper-based sketching and the use of mental imagery. A protocol study of four novice designers was conducted in two different environments: with access to sketches only; and blindfolded and delayed sketches. In total there were eight 45 minute design sessions. This study confi...

Previous empirical studies in sketches and mental imagery showed that there is no significant difference in overall quality and possibility to use mental imagery as design tool. This preliminary study explores distinctions between two kinds of sessions in terms of how ideas are generated. Four design sessions of two novice designers are used to unv...

The paper focuses on technical and methodological aspects of using smartpens to capture sketching activities in the idea generation stage. Aiming to consider a more effective way to capture designers’ decisions, moves, verbal and non-verbal cues; the paper attempts to provide a critical appraisal of how smartpen-based recording system are able to i...

The main behavioural characteristics of the early design stage are that designers move freely between various levels of detail and different cognitive strategies; this is the central tenet of this research. The interplay between the role of sketching and mental imagery during the design process is somewhat mysterious. It is assumed, but not known,...