1st Edition

Advancing Student Experience in the Art and Design Curriculum Project-Based Learning

Edited By William Platz Copyright 2026
122 Pages 33 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

122 Pages 33 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Advancing Student Experience in the Art and Design Curriculum: Project-Based Learning will renew the critical attention paid to projects in the art and design curriculum and rigorously consider impacts on student experience. How exactly do we conceive of ‘projects’ in the context of a post-secondary creative arts curriculum? Each chapter in this book confronts the project as a specific,... Read more

List of figures

List of contributors

Introduction

William Platz

Chapter One: An Experimental Shoemaking Course Exploring the Pedagogy of Craft

Damien Mitchell

Chapter Two: Parcelling The Drawing Curriculum: Correspondence Strategies Post-COVID-19

William Platz

Chapter Three: The Art School Hīkoi Kōrero/Walk and Talk: Critical Thinking on the Move

Monique Redmond and Ingrid Boberg

Chapter Four: Very Large Models Programmed Without Purpose

Nicholas Bruscia

Chapter Five: Thinking Through Practice: Applied Design Informing Real-World Experiential Pedagogy

Tom Sutton

Index

Biography

William Platz SFHEA is an American Australian artist, teacher and researcher with a disciplinary focus on drawing and research concentrations in pedagogies of drawing, studio education, curriculum development, learning design, life drawing and portraiture. Dr Platz is currently Head of Drawing at the Queensland College of Art and Design at Griffith University. His teaching leadership and practice have been recognised with multiple institutional, national and international teaching excellence awards and credentials.