The Colour Literacy Forum is a virtual platform featuring presentations and interactive conversations focused on updating and expanding colour education at the post-secondary level. The goal of the Forum is to serve as a networking tool to connect faculty, students, and administrators with interdisciplinary professionals to provide cutting-edge research, curricula, tools, and resources.
State of the art: Colour teaching in design education
With Ingrid Calvo Ivanovic
Friday April 22, 2022, 3:00-4:00pm, Eastern
Abstract
This featured talk presents a comprehensive analysis of the state of the art of colour teaching in design programs of higher education institutions from different countries (Latin America, North America, Europe, and Oceania) during the last decade (2010-2020). The study was conducted as part of a doctoral research that proposes the development of a Colour Design Training Itinerary (CDTI) as a complete educational framework for the improvement of the teaching and learning of colour in the design discipline.
The study aimed to identify the main didactic strategies implemented and to recognise the critical aspects when proposing an innovative framework for colour training. The analysis focused on formalised and autonomous training moments for colour in design, colour courses, and the methodology was based on desk research and consultation with teachers, resulting in a comparative study to the syllabuses of more than 100 colour-based courses by considering the formal aspects and the main elements of the didactic strategies. Among the formal aspects that were analysed, we can find the course level, duration of the course, the entry profile of students, the specific disciplinary area, the course location, type of institution, and the course's language. Among the elements of the didactic strategies, we can find the learning outcomes, the contents proposed by the course, the teaching strategies implemented and the suggested bibliography.
The study's main results will show that knowledge sharing between colour science and the design discipline is not bi-directional or equivalent: colour knowledge is informing design through concepts and methodologies, but design discipline is poorly informing colour science. Additionally, there is a strong need to move from a content-centred approach to a student-centred focus that could be able to dialogue with design-based learning, teaching strategy at the core of the design discipline, and to embrace the most optimal learning methods for the future generations of designers (new technologies, channels, actors, active learning, among others) and the future discipline needs.
INGRID CALVO IVANOVIC PhD
Ingrid Calvo Ivanovic is a Colour Designer, Researcher and Consultant in Design Research, Politecnico di Milano. MA in Image Studies and Graphic Designer. Assistant Professor of the Design Department of the University of Chile. Member of the AIC Executive Committee. Member of the Editorial Board of Color Research & Application Journal. Member of the Steering Committee of the AIC+ISCC Colour Literacy Project. Member of Study Group on Colour Education (SGCE) and the Study Group on Environmental Colour Design (ECD) of the International Colour Association (AIC). President of the Scientific Committee of the AIC2016 Interim Meeting: Colour in Urban Life.
For more than twelve years, Ingrid has been a full-time researcher in the field of colour, developing methodologies for its study, teaching, and application in design, architecture, and art, in relation to other research areas such as visual and curatorial studies. Also, she has presented specialized colour conferences and workshops in different countries of America, Oceania and Europe.
