Description
This keynote, Immersive Design Legacies: Andragogical Values, examines how immersive design can contribute to future-oriented education by connecting technological innovation with human-centred learning, cultural continuity, and value creation. In an era shaped by artificial intelligence, extended reality, digital twins, and increasingly hybrid modes of engagement, design education must move beyond the transmission of skills and knowledge. It must enable learners to act as reflective, critical, and creative agents who can interpret complexity, construct meaning, and contribute responsibly to society.The keynote frames immersive design not only as a technological practice, but as an andragogical condition: a mode of learning in which experience, autonomy, participation, and situated inquiry become central. Through immersive environments, learners can engage with spatial, cultural, historical, and social contexts in ways that are embodied, interactive, and transformative. Such environments allow design education to bridge past and future, linking legacies of place, memory, and culture with emerging forms of innovation.
The presentation argues that the value of immersive design lies not simply in visualisation or simulation, but in its capacity to generate deeper understanding, ethical awareness, and active participation. By positioning learners as co-creators of knowledge and experience, immersive design supports educational models that are collaborative, research-informed, technologically fluent, and socially meaningful. The keynote therefore proposes immersive design as a critical framework for rethinking design education, where innovation is measured not only by novelty, but by the values it cultivates, the legacies it sustains, and the futures it enables.
| Period | 1 Nov 2024 → 2 Nov 2024 |
|---|---|
| Event title | Design and Education International Forum: Design, Innovation, and Value |
| Event type | Conference |
| Conference number | 2024 |
| Location | Xinzheng, Zhengzhou, ChinaShow on map |
| Degree of Recognition | International |
Keywords
- Andragogy
- Architecture
- Design Legacies
- Design Values
- higher education
- Design education