Analogue and Digital in Dialogue

Improving access to technology using artistic strategies.

In the “Analogue and Digital in Dialogue” project, an interdisciplinary team investigated how design techniques can be used to facilitate different approaches to 3D printing.

The inexorable march of digitalisation continues to pose new challenges for schools. Traditional teaching and learning skills need to be complemented by new methods, and teachers consistently face new demands. The use of 3D printers will continue to gain ground in Fine Arts (FA) and Technical Design (TD) in the next few years, as these devices both offer exciting possibilities and, as prices fall, will become affordable tools for schools and households. They will consequently become part of the cultural assets to which pupils are introduced. The majority of teachers have not yet trained to deal with such a change.

This project explored various teaching and learning settings as well as the incorporation of analogue design techniques in courses on 3D printing delivered to students of the Institute of Art and Design Education (IADE) and the School of Education, and developed the set of exercises entitled “Forms: Learning and Teaching 3D Printing.”

The project was part of FHNW’s EduNaT strategic initiative and ran from 1 October 2015 to 31 December 2017. It was conducted as a joint project between the School of Education, the School of Engineering and the School of Applied Psychology, under the leadership of the Institute of Art and Design Education (IADE) within the FHNW Academy of Art and Design.

Project management: Markus Schwander (HGK)
Employees; Stefanie Mauroux (HGK), Falk Scheidig (PH), Ulla Klingovsky (PH), Pascal Schleuniger (TH) and Anne Herrmann (APS).

https://www.fhnw.ch/de/die-fhnw/strategische-initiativen-15-17/edunat