Laura Knight
About Writing
AboutWriting
Laura Knight
Design, education and research
Feedback literacy through diagramming
Feedback literacy through diagramming
Laura KnightOctober 14, 2023diagramming, feedback literacy, data drawing
741.6092 / Workshop Design
741.6092 / Workshop Design
741.6092, Workshop Design, MethodsLaura KnightSeptember 26, 2022
What’s the actual difference between Graphic Design courses at UAL?
What’s the actual difference between Graphic Design courses at UAL?
Laura KnightJanuary 4, 2022visualisation, data
What design mindsets did Rand and DeBretteville represent?
What design mindsets did Rand and DeBretteville represent?
Laura KnightAugust 13, 2020
Pale, Male and Stale. Once again.
Pale, Male and Stale. Once again.

Who are the graphic designers in section 741.6092?

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741.6092, Workshop DesignLaura KnightMay 18, 2020
Reflections on a racist printer
Reflections on a racist printer

I realise all the ways that I am the printer. How we are products of the same system.

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Laura KnightFebruary 26, 2020
741.6092 / Workshop Notes
741.6092 / Workshop Notes

It’s a great way to talk to students about designing research and methods

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741.6092, Workshop DesignLaura KnightFebruary 21, 2020
What gets counted counts...
What gets counted counts...
Laura KnightFebruary 1, 2020
How did Florence Nightingale help me with my assessment strategy?
How did Florence Nightingale help me with my assessment strategy?

However, the 'Wedges' as Nightingale called them do not begin and end with quantitative data. I have found that they can be a great method of visualising qualitative data too. Which is why, 161 years later, I still use something very similar to structure feedback with graphic design students.

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Methods, VisualisationLaura KnightNovember 4, 2019
What’s a desire line in education? And how can we follow them?
What’s a desire line in education? And how can we follow them?

The students make the course. How they use it, or misuse it is a vitally important aspect of its design.

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Methods, Visualisation, Workshop Design, AssessmentLaura KnightOctober 28, 2019
How do you design workshops that model thinking through making?
How do you design workshops that model thinking through making?

We often talk about Thinking Through Making' in design education. But how do we teach it?

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Workshop Design, Designing MethodsLaura KnightSeptember 24, 2019
Workshops - A process or  a strategy?
Workshops - A process or a strategy?

Is all this “practicality” just ‘a camouflage’?

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Laura KnightSeptember 23, 2019
Do we need to stop talking about the design process?
Do we need to stop talking about the design process?

Let’s stop talking about THE design process….

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Visualisation, Workshop DesignLaura KnightJuly 15, 2019
Leading, Following and Co-Teaching
Leading, Following and Co-Teaching

These days I actively seek opportunities to follow in my teaching. Sometimes I am following a co-teacher, and sometimes I am following my students.

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Laura KnightMay 20, 2019
Design + Writing = ?
Design + Writing = ?

In many Graphic Design deparments, theory seems to = thinking + writing and practice seems to = thinking + making. Most agree that this has to change. But how?

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Design WritingLaura KnightSeptember 1, 2018writing, academicwriting, dissertation, designwriting, writing-as-practice
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