Design for Transformative Learning: A Practical Approach to Memory-Making and Perspective-Shifting

Design for Transformative Learning offers a playful and practical approach to learning from and adapting to a rapidly changing world. It presents a design-led approach to revising the stories we tell ourselves, unlearning old habits, and embracing new practices. The book maps learning opportunities across the contemporary landscape, narrating global case studies from K12, higher education, design consultancies, and researchers. It offers narrative context, best practices, and emergent strategies for how designers can partner in advancing a lifetime of learning. The book is committed to driving sustained transformation and proposes playful strategies for seeding transformational change. The relational practice at the core of Design for Transformative Learning argues that if learning is to be transformative, the experience must be embodied, cognitive, and social.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 258 pages
Publication date: 07 April 2022
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Design for Transformative Learning offers a playful and practical approach to learning from and adapting to a rapidly changing world. By viewing continuous learning as more than the periodic acquisition of new skills, this book presents a design-led approach to revising the stories we tell ourselves, unlearning old habits, and embracing new practices. This comprehensive book maps learning opportunities across the contemporary landscape, narrating global case studies from K-12, higher education, design consultancies, and researchers. It provides narrative context, best practices, and emergent strategies for how designers can partner in advancing a lifetime of learning. With a commitment to driving sustained transformation, this book serves as a playbook of practical moves for designing memory-making, perspective-shifting, hands-on learning encounters.

The book intertwines stories from design practice with theories of change, transformative learning literature, cognitive and social psychology research, affect theory, and Indigenous knowing. It positions the COVID-19 pandemic as a moment to question what was previously normalised, proposing playful strategies for seeding transformational change.

At the heart of Design for Transformative Learning lies the relational practice, which argues that if learning is to be transformative, the experience must be embodied, cognitive, and social. This book is a valuable resource for design and social innovation researchers, facilitators of community engagement and co-design workshops, design and arts educators, and professional learning designers. It also serves as a useful primer for K-12 teachers, organizational change practitioners, and professional development facilitators interested in exploring the intersection of design and learning.

In addition to the book, a companion website provides additional resources, including case studies, examples, and interactive tools to support the learning and application of Design for Transformative Learning.

Weight: 438g
Dimension: 153 x 235 x 22 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032246253