[8C] Design Education

[8C-03] Educational Practice and Study of "Design for Play"

*Yuki Sakagawa¹, Masahiro Horie¹ (1. Tohoku Institute of Technology)

Keywords:Design Education, Design Process, Prototyping

This study involved the educational practice of "Design for Play" for third-year university students studying design from 2019 to 2021. Students work in groups on the theme of "Design for Play". The "Design for Play" process is based on the process of human-centered design, and we believe that students were able to learn about the design process through "Design for Play. In addition, the class practiced in this study focused on the "observation" phase of the design process, and was designed to allow students to observe "play" itself from various perspectives through group discussions on "what play is" and "what is fun. We believe that this will help students to realize the importance of discovering and defining issues in design.