Redefining Close Quarters

Discussing transitioning business academics from traditional to blended delivery

Abstract

The partnership between designers and subject matter experts creates an ill-structured problem whereby the marrying of design skills with discipline knowledge are not always seamlessly combined. The meaning of definitions and by association interpretations can become blurred in this partnership and understanding the different perspectives contributing to the activity can assist in guiding design activities. Each participant in the partnership has a contextual journey that is guided by their own perspectives, discipline specific experiences as knowledge and interpretation of such and this can result in a unique experience for this problem-solving activity of design. This panel allows academics to share their own interpretations of the process as a way to alert all participants to the blurred understandings that occur in design processes.