Tengfei Xu, Peng Gao

Tengfei Xu

28 December 2023

Design thinking, Aesthetic education, Problem-based Learning, Practical exploration.

Design education includes education and improvement in the "humanistic spirit" aspects such as culture and aesthetic literacy. In the context of new liberal arts and new engineering, the trend of interdisciplinary is highlighted. "Educating people with beauty and culture" has become another focus of design aesthetic education. Different from aesthetic education in fine arts education, the improvement of aesthetic literacy in design education focuses not only on the cultivation of emotional experience in appreciation, but also on the rational enhancement integrated with "design thinking". School of Future Design of Beijing Normal University integrates design thinking into the projects and teaching of various laboratories. The Design and Education Laboratory has carried out practical explorations of aesthetic education under the interdisciplinary background from the perspectives of teaching and projects. In the process of aesthetic literacy cultivation, from "goals and value orientations" to "content and direction exploration", from "PBL problem-oriented and project-based teaching" to "attempts in the integration of art and science and interdisciplinary projects", etc., it attempts to follow the trend of times and create a new situation in cultivating interdisciplinary future design education talents who are comprehensive, innovative, and applied.

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