Cognitive room for Design education: Theoretical aspects

  • Tiago Atalaia Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9047-268X
  • Joana Farinha Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias
  • João Araújo Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias
  • José Jaime Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias
  • Tatyara Oliveira Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias
  • Ricardo Nunes Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias
DOI: https://doi.org/10.24140/issn.1645-7250.rle46.11

Abstract

The normal aspect of rooms dedicated to Design education tends to use exhibitions of actual and past student’s work as a strategy to inspire creativity in their students. On other hand, the maintenance of the same objects in that room can lead to some boringness as students or workers look at the same things for a period. This leads us to the problem we wish to reflect on: Can a room be designed to be user-adaptative allowing multi-sensory experience in line with the educational process in a Design setting? Our goal was to describe the possible link between the educational process and the contribution of a room that is cognitive adaptable to the different needs of that educational process. To achieve this, a theoretical study was conducted to propose a framework for cognitive room creation, based on augmented cognition concepts. The concepts of creativity, visual pollution, and human-environment interaction understood as the cognitive workload was confronted in order to create a technology-based concept of a room that is adaptative to the cognitive needs of its users, in a design creational process setting. Theoretically, it seems possible to create a room that adapts to one’s educational needs, including emotional status, one aspect that can directly be associated with the creativity performance in Design. The implementation of a simulated room based on these ideas will help to quantify the real benefit of this theoretical assumption to Design education and practice. If true it can be traduced to other room-based realities as school rooms.

Keywords: Adaptative rooms; augmented cognition; education; media as multi-sensory experiences.

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Published
2020-12-09
How to Cite
Atalaia, T., Farinha, J., Araújo, J., Jaime, J., Oliveira, T., & Nunes, R. (2020). Cognitive room for Design education: Theoretical aspects. Revista Lusófona De Educação, 46(46). https://doi.org/10.24140/issn.1645-7250.rle46.11
Issue
Vol. 46 No. 46 (2019): REVISTA LUSÓFONA DE EDUCAÇÃO
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