Co-Design with Neurodivergent Students and Recent Graduates to Develop an Inclusive Pedagogy in Design Education

This thesis aimed to learn from co-design workshops with neurodivergent industrial design students and recent graduates and develop an educational product for inclusive teaching practices within design studio courses. This approach aligns with the biopsychosocial model of disability, which encompasses listening to individuals personally affected and redesigning external factors that impact them. Themes drawn from the co-design workshops informed the design of Naranote, a digital template that assists students in expressing a story of their design process for their studio projects. Naranote was implemented among junior-level industrial design students while completing their current studio projects, and it was also implemented among portfolio workshop participants who used Naranote to integrate storytelling into a past project. This thesis contributes to general knowledge by proposing a novel methodology and recommendations for co-design with neurodivergent students and recent graduates. Secondarily, it proposes co-design as an approach for informing products to support inclusive teaching practices while providing two user studies as starting points for testing educational interventions.

Level thesis:degree_level

Masters

Department dc:contributor.department

Industrial Design

Grantor dc:publisher

Georgia Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2024

Author dc:creator

• Bhattacharya, Karina Lani

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Khan, Sabir

Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember

• Aflatoony, Leila
• Li, Wayne

• Co-Design
• Neurodiversity
• Design Education

Language dc:language.iso

en_US

Handle dc:identifier.uri

https://hdl.handle.net/1853/75287

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:repository.gatech.edu:1853/75287