LOM#23: Design and digital fabrication in education

Editor: Roland Hachmann, rhac@ucsyd.dk, UC SYD
Editor: Jens Jørgen Hansen, jjh@sdu.dk, SDU
Guest editor: Mikkel Hjorth, misi@via.dk, VIA UC

In this issue of LOM, we focus on the concepts of design and digital fabrication in education. We call for research papers that address these concepts on all educational levels.

In the recent decade, there has been an increasing focus on both the demand for creative and innovative skills in relation to the use of digital technologies. Further there has been a focus on the potential of such approaches regarding the concept of bildung within educational settings. Working with design and digital fabrication can be seen as ways of developing students’ creative and innovative skills and they have, in various ways, been the focal points within the educational landscape. Schools and other educational institutions have invested heavily in establishing MakerSpaces, FabLabs and HackerSpaces, to promote students' ability to problem-solve through design processes and fabrication both physically and digitally. Similarly, digital design and design processes have become a focus area within various educational disciplines, proving to be both beneficial and challenging.

In this issue, LOM we focus on theoretical and empirical research that explores design and digital fabrication. Contributions can be based on existing research and cases, reviews of other research contributions and books on the concepts, evaluations of effects and quality in relation to educational challenges or pedagogical innovations and experiments using aspects of the concepts.

Contributions to the issue could include:

*      Theoretical contributions on definitions and methods focusing on design and fabrication within teaching and learning contexts

*      Empirical studies and concrete cases on design and fabrication within educational settings

*      Implications of the concepts for educational thinking and learning

*      Investigations on pedagogical concepts, designs or approaches related to e.g. Makerspaces, Fablabs or

Hackerspaces

*      Investigations focusing on the impact of design and digital fabrication on new roles or ways of participation and interaction within educational settings

*      Impact on quality of teaching and education

*      Other related topics

Important dates

*      Submission of abstract (100 – 200 words): 1 November 2019. Submit your abstract via e-mail to one of the editors.

*     Notification of acceptance/rejection: 21 November 2019

*      Manuscript (or media product): 15 January 2020

*      Review sent to authors: 15 March 2020

*      Final manuscript: 15 April 2020

*      Publication of issue: 15 May 2020

 

All manuscripts are to follow these guidelines:

http://ojs.statsbiblioteket.dk/index.php/lom/about/submissions#onlineSubmissions