Design Aesthetics 1/3/2017 - Wednesday

As usual , I ate some breakfast before I enter the class. Today, Dr.Tan told us that, that is two way of learning design, which is Tabula Rasa (UK teaching method) and Pragmatist (America teaching method). Dr.Tan ask students to draw his portrait in 1 minute and distinguish it in level A,B and C. After that, Dr.Tan ask students redraw his portrait again but he gave 2 minute in the second time, and we followed his request. The first portrait had been returned back and Dr.Tan ask student to make a comparison between two portrait. Well, for sure the second portrait is better because we had more time to completed.


Note :

Two ways of learning design :

1. Tabula Rasa by John Locke (UK)
- refers to the epistemological idea that individuals are born without built-in mental content and that therefore all knowledge comes from experience or perception

2. Pragmatists (Americanism)
- consider thought an instrument or tool for prediction, problem solving and action, such as the nature of knowledge, language, concepts, meaning, belief, and science—are all best viewed in terms of their practical uses and successes

*According to the voting results, most students choose Pragmatists as a way of learning.