Research team: Professor Jill Franz

Marissa Lindquist

Project title: Pedagogy of Desire

FOR code: 1201

Abstract: Despite major inroads in demystifying creativity for the non-

design disciplines, there has been little movement in the

design disciplines themselves beyond traditional paradigms.

This is particularly noticeable in design education where

traditional pedagogical approaches persist despite the

emergence of new experimental pedagogies. In response,

this research aims to explore what a pedagogy of desire can

offer and what this means in terms of curriculum

development; learning environments; teaching approaches

and staff development. Specifically, it seeks to: understand

more fully the notion of desire and how students’ and

teachers’ desires can be exploited in creative and productive

ways; to further explore the relationship between risk

(through experiencing uncertainties and anxieties) and

pleasure (through assuming the subversive position of

knowing); to identify and explore how to negotiate personal,

professional and organisational implications; and to develop

appropriate evaluation mechanisms.

Time frame: 2011 - 2013

Funding: School and Discipline in-kind and conference travel

Activity: Pedagogical Research, Curriculum Review and Development

Project program: Reflective Practice/Action Research involving continuing

cycles of action, review, implementation.

Research group

alignment:

Design for Health and Social Inclusion

ERA outcomes: Conference Paper

Franz, Jill & Lindquist, Marissa & Bitner, Grace (2011)

Educating for Change: A Case for a pedagogy of desire in

design education. DesignEd Asia Conference 2011.

Forthcoming Conference Paper 2012:

Lindquist, Marissa & Franz, J & Bitner, Grace (2012) Sublime Acts: Desire in the Studio. In Churchill, L & (Ed) IDEA Symposium: The Interior: a state of Becoming proceedings, 2012.

Potential researcher

engagement:

Design Educators

Learning and Teaching Researchers

Pedagogy of Desire

The project represented the horizontal sublime (Yaeger 1989) expanding towards others, spreading itself out towards others, spreading itself out into multiplicity, sharing, transposing and appropriating.