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2023: Buna Africa: The participatory design of an online aquaculture platform

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2007: The good, bad, and ugly in architectural case studies

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2021: BIM as an alternative architectural teaching device

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2007: Time, quality and strategic adequacy dimensions of product design processes

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2021: Positioning Afro-diasporic speculative design episteme in South African higher education institutions

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Ambala, Anthony Terah

2025: Visualising feminism: The role of graphic design used in the Dove campaign on gender advocacy 2004

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Angela Netshidzati, Angela Netshidzati

2019: Design-Based Research: Bridging the gap between fashion design education and research on design

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Ankiewicz, Piet

2023: Textualising visual stimulus: A visual methodology to encourage innovation in fashion design education

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anse van Rensburg, Mieke

2019: Embracing Cosmopolitan Localism for Sustainable Graphic Design Practices in Ghana

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Assibey, Ginn Bonsu

2023: Using SLOC as a co-design inquiry tool into nomadic pedagogy for a Design+Ecology project

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Assibey, Ginn Bonsu

2025: DIY not? The value of zines in graphic design education

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Badenhorst, Neil

2021: The role of student-staff partnership and collaborative learning in interior design education

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Balkanska, Alexandra

2023: Humanising online education: A practical approach to teaching theory online

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Balkanska, Alexandra

2021: Masking-up with 4IR fashion design education: A retrospective analysis

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Baloyi, Tinyiko

2011: Finding Thought: an investigation into the development of critical thinking skills in Industrial Design

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Barnes, Veronica

2015: Mapping Empathy and Ethics in the Design Process

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Barnes, Veronica

2023: The digital supervisor: Key to access or shortcutting research?

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Barnes, Veronica

2021: BIM as an alternative architectural teaching device

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Basson, Jean-Pierre

2025: Developing a co-created knowledge hub to advance sustainable and inclusive design teaching in architecture

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Basson, Jean-Pierre

2025: Fostering criticality through transdisciplinary collaboration

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Basson, Jean-Pierre

2025: The design brief: A phenomenological and decolonised approach to undergraduate architectural studies

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Basson, Jean-Pierre

2023: Design lecturers' pedagogical approach to practical studio sessions during the rapid transition to online learning

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Batchelor, Jacqueline

2019: Representations of Agency for Female Documentary Subjects in Selected Films on Netflix

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Bechan, Nirvana

2021: Critical design futures: Challenging the gender data gap through pedagogy

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Bediako, Kimberly

2021: Masking-up with 4IR fashion design education: A retrospective analysis

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Bediako, Kimberly

2015: Architecture and agency: ethics and accountability in teaching through the application of Open Building principles

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2007: Ideas for Integrating Sustainability into Graphic Design Pedagogy: American Case Studies

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2006: The Importance of Cultural Exposure for Designers

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2011: Cultural Action for Change: A case for cross-cultural, multidisciplinary collaborations

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2007: Perception of self and its impact on verbal formative feedback

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Blair, Bernadette

2011: An examination of student formative assessment and face to face feedback in studio-based design education

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Blair, Bernadette

2021: Exploring the potential of design thinking in the age of fourth industrial revolution in South Africa

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Bodunrin, Itunu Ayodeji

2015: The role of the industrial design educator in equipping design students to be ethical decision makers

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2023: Bridging the gap between industry and the lecture hall: Small-scale manufacturing machines for experiential learning within the teaching environment

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2025: Integrating small-scale fabrication technologies in design education for enhanced studio-based learning

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2025: Pluriversal Design in Action: Collaborative Approaches to Education, Practice, and Community Building

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2009: Pitches and Proposals: Linking Reseach and Commercial Strategies

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2025: Exploring circularity to inform contemporary South African design process

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2017: In Your Hands & Self-Portrait: Introductory Spatial Design Exercises in the First-year Studio

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2023: Design and construction: Intersections of linear and circular design

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2007: Changing landscape of design

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2006: Positioning the Bachelor of Technology: Interior Design within the HEQF

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Breytenbach, Amanda

2007: An assessment of the contribution of design education to the knowledge economy in South Africa

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Breytenbach, Amanda

2009: Opening Gates: Reflecting on the liaison role of DEFSA at a tertiary level

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Breytenbach, Amanda

2011: An integrated teaching strategy: Reflecting on a collaborative design project

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Breytenbach, Amanda

2013: Cultivating sustainable thinking through employing a student-centred learning approach

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Breytenbach, Amanda

2015: Do the right thing- combat our unsustainable future with design education

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Breytenbach, Amanda

2019: The Postgraduate Supervision Space: From formal meetings to late-night calls

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Breytenbach, Amanda

2021: The influence of the fourth industrial revolution: A multi-discipline approach for design education

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Breytenbach, Amanda

2023: Reflecting on lessons-learned for BIM implementation in design curricula in South Africa

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Breytenbach, Amanda

2025: A visual exploration of fashion brand communication on Instagram aimed at Generation Z

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Brickman, Stephanie

2013: Green Screen: The Actor’s Challenge

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Broodryk, Chris

2009: Extending The Learning Landscape: Adapting To A New Student

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2023: An exploration of co-creating South African city brands to revive the tourism industry post a global pandemic

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Burger, Yolandi

2025: A visual exploration of fashion brand communication on Instagram aimed at Generation Z

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Burger, Yolandi

2013: Designing environments for a stressful and traumatic workplace culture: a case study in a mental institution

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Bussiahn, Waldemar

2025: African Abacus: Mapping praxis for inclusive online short course design in architecture

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Busuku, Sandile

2009: The Politics of Change, Craft and the Bauhaus Reborn: New Relationships in Design Education

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2011: Are we there yet? Graphic design‘s next destinations

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2013: Critical Design as critique of the design status quo

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2019: From Experiment to Social Action: The shift in critical design

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2023: Celebrating Afrikanness: Proposing a design approach that foregrounds Afrikan cultural identity and Afronowism

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2025: Autochthonous design and the mapping of Afrikanness

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2011: Designing from Behind the Camera: Creative interdisciplinarity in film, architecture and interior design

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2019: ‘The Pretty Stuff’: Gender bias and the future of design knowledge in the South African industrial design context

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Campbell, Angus Donald

2009: Negating the Serif: Postcolonial Approaches toTypeface Design

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2025: A human-centred and collaborative approach to curriculum design for higher certificate programmes in creative disciplines – case study

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Caplin, Sunette

2006: Other Wise: Towards a Meeting of Graphic Design and Indigenous Knowledge

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2007: Towards a new Master’s Degree in Graphic Design for the Durban University of Technology.

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2009: Creative Industries, Creative Solutions: Developments in a work-integrated Learning Project in Durban

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2017: Past + Present = Future? The Potential Role of Historical Visual Material and Contemporary Practice in De-Colonising Visual Communication Design Courses

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2019: Planet of Boiled Frogs: Factors influencing the future environment of design education

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2021: Overcoming educational inequalities associated with online learning in light of a pandemic: A private higher education approach.

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2015: Towards human-centered design solutions: Stakeholder participation during brief development

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Carstens, Lizette

2021: Towards 4IR and African scholarship: Exploring research capacity in the widening discipline of communication design

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Carstens, Lizette

2023: Communication design industry – in search of unicorns or new pathways?

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Carstens, Lizette

2023: Flipping the script: Using artificial intelligence to design authentic assessment rubrics

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Carstens, Lizette

2021: Studio jewellery processes for the post-cyber designer

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2025: Human-centred, student-led: Building socially sustainable futures in design education

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2007: Pedagogical approaches to learning and curriculum development in Design for inclusion and self-reality

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Chisin, Alettia Vorster

2019: Embracing Cosmopolitan Localism for Sustainable Graphic Design Practices in Ghana

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Chisin, Alettia Vorster

2023: Using SLOC as a co-design inquiry tool into nomadic pedagogy for a Design+Ecology project

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Chisin, Alettia Vorster

2011: Considering "design with intent" within graphic design at a University of Technology

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Chmela-Jones, Kate

2013: Democratising graphic design: the role of human-centred practice within communication design projects

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Chmela-Jones, Kate

2015: The ethics of Ubuntu and community participation in design

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Chmela-Jones, Kate

2025: Digital convergence, possessive viewers, and evolving documentary aesthetics

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Chmela-Jones, Kate

2007: Architectural Knowledge and Iterative Mediating Artifacts

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Christenson, Mike

2007: The good, bad, and ugly in architectural case studies

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Christenson, Mike

2007: Designing Breakthrough Bamboo Products from Africa

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Christiaans, Henry

2007: Developing products & services for the Base of the Pyramid (BoP)

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Christiaans, Henry

2019: Curriculum Development for Fashion Product Development in an ODeL Context

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Christie, Lorna

2023: The digital supervisor: Key to access or shortcutting research?

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2023: Enhancing awareness in interior design education: A life-centred approach to designing for ageing-in-place

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Cocotos, Colleen

2023: Re-storying design research: A case study in the context of postgraduate studies

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Coetzee, Hesté

2017: A Decolonised Approach to Developing Training Materials for Low-Literate Participants of Rural Sewing Income Generating Projects

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Coetzee, Nicolene

2017: Student Perceptions on Curriculum Change: Art and Design Theory within a New Bachelor of Visual Arts Degree at Nelson Mandela University.

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2021: Lost connection: Reflections on online jewellery design teaching

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Cook, Shashi Cullinan

2025: Many worlds, shared futures: Creative-science-community collaboration

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Cook, Shashi Cullinan

2007: Designing in Person – Locally and Globally

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Corkery, Prof Linda

2006: OBE: The only way forward for design education?

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Costandius, Elmarie

2019: Negotiating Material Design Knowledge: Making through design research

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Costandius, Elmarie

2017: A Decolonial Academy? Addressing the Oxymoron: How a Series of Performative Art-Science Creative Encounters Might Serve as a Toolbox of Ideas

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Cowling, Richard M

2023: The integration of critical thinking and digital manufacturing in interior design product development

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2015: Paying it forward: Practicing Scholarship of Engagement in Design Education

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2021: Collaborating online with strangers

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2023: Fostering design students’ professional confidence for workplace success through transdisciplinary online collaborative problem-based learning

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2019: Embracing Cosmopolitan Localism for Sustainable Graphic Design Practices in Ghana

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Cronje, Johannes

2007: A Network for Sustainable Innovation in Africa

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2007: Developing products & services for the Base of the Pyramid (BoP)

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2019: Towards a Design Thinking Mindset in Academic Staff Development: Cross-continental design principles for blended learning course design

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: Developing a theoretical framework for understanding the communicative value of typographic elements

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Cunningham, Nicole

2006: Shifting pedagogies: the impact of recurriculation

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2007: Conformity & Creativity: tensions in portfolio requirements

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2006: Reviewing Design Education: A merger imperative

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2007: Teaching production technology – doing more with less

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De Deugd, Prof JAG

2017: Using Digital Imaging Technology to Decolonize Education in a Museum Context

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de Klerk, Anneke

2019: Transferring Experiences from a Photography Practice Research PhD Study into a Creative Practice-Teaching Context

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de Klerk, Anneke

2025: Digital convergence, possessive viewers, and evolving documentary aesthetics

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de Klerk, Anneke

2025: XR and AI as disruptors in South African art and design education

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de Klerk, Anneke

2001: Specialization versus generalization in design education: where to draw the line?

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de la Harpe, Hanri

2007: Can creativity be taught?

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de la Harpe, Hanri

2015: Exploring design strategies to determine information needs of caregivers

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de la Harpe, Retha

2007: Design solutions to community health communication

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de Lange, Rudi W

2009: Using Educational Research Results To Improve Graphics For Instructional Material

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de Lange, Rudi W

2013: Ethics in Design Research: a reflection on Intercultural Praxis in the Design Disciplines

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de Lange, Rudi W

2013: A reflexive account of developing community health care material

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de Lange, Rudi W

2015: Non-maleficence as an ethical guideline to design

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de Lange, Rudi W

2015: Re-representation: Addressing objectifying media portrayals of women in South Africa

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de Lange, Rudi W

2015: Ethics and packaging design: Marketing of sugary breakfast cereals to South African children

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de Lange, Rudi W

2019: Assessment of Postgraduate Studies: Are we missing the mark?

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de Lange, Rudi W

2019: Towards a Pragmatic Code of Ethics for Design Research

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de Lange, Rudi W

2019: The Value of Using Hypothesis-Testing Research for Graphic Design: Do decorative pictures contribute to learning?

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de Lange, Rudi W

2019: Student Photography and Ethical Clearance: Do we need a tailored code for research ethics?

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de Lange, Rudi W

2021: Research ethics in South African visual communication design: A principlist approach to non-anonymity

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de Lange, Rudi W

2021: Measures by an advertising company to mitigate the impact of COVID-19: A case study and the Next Normal for design education

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de Lange, Rudi W

2007: Nine Factors Guiding the Theory in Design Education and the Practice of Teaching in Industrial Design

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de Medeiros, Ligia

2025: Sustainable knowledge in communities: Design for social good through fashion education

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De Meillon, Zanné

2025: Pluriversal Design in Action: Collaborative Approaches to Education, Practice, and Community Building

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2017: Axis Mundi: A Pedagogical Exploration of the Decolonising Potential of Mythology

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de Villiers, Courtney

2025: African Abacus: Mapping praxis for inclusive online short course design in architecture

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2015: Whose creative expression is it anyway? A conceptual framework proposed to facilitate an authentic creation process of fashion design mood boards

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2017: Role with the Students: A Social Constructivist Decolonising Teaching Strategy for Visual Literacy in Fashion Design Programs

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2021: Learning from a distance: A conceptual teaching framework that supports positive emotions and novelty during independent fashion design processes

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2015: Exploring design strategies to determine information needs of caregivers

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Debrah, Ratlitsa

2023: Undergraduate design students’ experiences of decision making in the framing stage of a collaborative design project

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Dehrmann, Annika

2023: AI, Alexander, and architecture

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Delport, Hermie

2025: African Abacus: Mapping praxis for inclusive online short course design in architecture

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Delport, Hermie

2019: The Postgraduate Supervision Space: From formal meetings to late-night calls

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Deminey, Emmerencia Petronella Marisca

2021: The influence of the fourth industrial revolution: A multi-discipline approach for design education

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Deminey, Emmerencia Petronella Marisca

2023: Reflecting on lessons-learned for BIM implementation in design curricula in South Africa

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Deminey, Emmerencia Petronella Marisca

2017: A Holistic Approach to the Decolonisation of Modules in Sustainable Interior Design

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Di Monte-Milner, Giovanna

2019: Nomads and Narratives: Navigating personal and professional literacies in design education

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Di Ruvo, Monica

2021: Studio jewellery processes for the post-cyber designer

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Di Ruvo, Monica

2023: Enhancing awareness in interior design education: A life-centred approach to designing for ageing-in-place

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Di Ruvo, Monica

2007: Developing products & services for the Base of the Pyramid (BoP)

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Diehl, Jan Carel

2009: Mirror-Mirror-On The Wall

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Doman, Jakob A.

2021: 4IR, the photographic curriculum and the South African higher educational context: A case study

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Doman, Jakob A.

2015: The Betterness of Braamfontein

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Donaldson, Tasmin Jade

2025: Feet on the ground, eyes on the design: An immersive design approach to spatial design education

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Dreyer, Maretha

2001: A framework for Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Technology Research

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du Plessis, Hester

2007: Bridging the epistemological divide between disciplines

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du Plessis, Hester

2007: Changing landscape of design

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du Plessis, Hester

2023: Re-storying design research: A case study in the context of postgraduate studies

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du Preez, Kirsten

2011: Finding Thought: an investigation into the development of critical thinking skills in Industrial Design

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du Preez, Vikki

2015: Mapping Empathy and Ethics in the Design Process

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du Preez, Vikki

2009: Making Space For Identity, Diversity And Voice In A Transcultural Visual Arts Community Of Practice

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2011: From 'banking‘ to 'stockvel‘: a critical reflection on the development of literacies

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2017: A Decolonial Academy? Addressing the Oxymoron: How a Series of Performative Art-Science Creative Encounters Might Serve as a Toolbox of Ideas

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2009: Mirror-Mirror-On The Wall

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Duvenhage, Christelle

2009: Towards An Educational Strategy For Promoting Social, Environmental And Ethical Awareness In Visual Communications

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2011: The Problem with Plagiarism

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2013: Problematic motifs: portrayals and identity construction of women in visual consumer media

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2015: Re-representation: Addressing objectifying media portrayals of women in South Africa

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2017: Student Perceptions on Curriculum Change: Art and Design Theory within a New Bachelor of Visual Arts Degree at Nelson Mandela University.

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2019: Towards a Pragmatic Code of Ethics for Design Research

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2007: The Latest New Media Pedagogy: The Medium or The Message?

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Egenhoefer, Beth

2021: Digital transformation of pedagogy in design education in the virtual learning environment

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Elgie, Christina

2015: Paying it forward: Practicing Scholarship of Engagement in Design Education

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2021: Collaborating online with strangers

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2023: Fostering design students’ professional confidence for workplace success through transdisciplinary online collaborative problem-based learning

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2021: Lost connection: Reflections on online jewellery design teaching

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2007: Lebanese Graphic Design, a Homogeneous Hybrid

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Fallaha, Nathalie

2011: A role for information architecture in design education: indeterminate problems in design thinking

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2011: Information architecture in design education: developing innovation through structured thinking

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2015: The Betterness of Braamfontein

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2015: Framing Complexity: an experience-led approach to designing user research

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2015: Wicked ethics in Design

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2015: The Firma Model: A Tool for Resolving Complex Societal Problems

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2019: Writing-up Research Through Design: An approach to research report writing in early level postgraduate education

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2021: Anticipating IR 4.0: Conceptualising a human-centred contribution to the design of emerging complex technological systems

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2023: Creative correspondence: Leveraging design artefacts to generate shared plausible futures

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2025: Anticipatory design futures: Operationalising design fiction to strategically account for preferable futures

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2021: Digital design ethics

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2023: Designing furniture for the future: Integrating advanced digital technologies into the design process

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2023: Physical meets digital: Advancing industrial design higher education through the incorporation of projection-mapping in undergraduate teaching and learning

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2023: Makers space/space making: Understanding the role of a MakersLab in fostering new creative pathways

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Fischer, Steffen

2013: Failing schools in South Africa: a symptom of defeatism in school leadership

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Fouche, Cariana

2007: Cape Town’s Search for an Inclusive Future

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Futerman, Rael G

2019: Towards a Design Thinking Mindset in Academic Staff Development: Cross-continental design principles for blended learning course design

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Gachago, Daniela

2001: Documentary photography and indigenous knowledge: some methodological challenges

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2013: Visual literacy in community communication: pretesting nutrition education materials for elderly caregivers in Boipatong

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2015: The ethics review of visual communication design research proposals: is a 'dual mandate' approach justifiable?

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2021: Research ethics in South African visual communication design: A principlist approach to non-anonymity

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2021: Visual hermeneutics and the fusion of horizons: Reflections on a globally networked learning project with graphic design students from three countries

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2009: Creative Industries, Creative Solutions: Developments in a work-integrated Learning Project in Durban

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Gatfield, Rowan

2001: A framework for Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Technology Research

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2007: Bridging the epistemological divide between disciplines

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2007: Design opportunity mapping for the small scale sector - bringing real life scenario into classroom

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2023: Flipping the script: Using artificial intelligence to design authentic assessment rubrics

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Geyser, Maretha

2025: Fixed to fluid: A postdigital framework for responsive and disruptive assessment in design education

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Geyser, Maretha

2001: Teaching Inclusive Design

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Gibberd, Amanda

2025: South African telephone wire art as a catalyst for community engagement: A case study in collaborative exhibition design

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Gigaba, Muziwandile

2001: Giving Value to Waste

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2013: Positioning ‘constructivist’ academic research into project-based pedagogical design studies for 4th year Interior Design Degree programmes

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2011: Creating a Community of Assessment Practice for Graphic Design through the use of E-portfolios

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2017: The Benefits of Incorporating a Decolonised Gaze for Design Education

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2023: Undergraduate design students’ experiences of decision making in the framing stage of a collaborative design project

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2025: African Abacus: Mapping praxis for inclusive online short course design in architecture

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2007: Nine Factors Guiding the Theory in Design Education and the Practice of Teaching in Industrial Design

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2007: The Use of Technical Drawing Methods to Generate 3-D Form

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2019: The Imperative for Developing Critical and Creative Thinking Competencies in Postgraduate Design Education

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2021: Dismantling boundaries: Does a transdisciplinary and multi-disciplinary tertiary education approach support the development of creative and critical thinking for an Afrikan design and business context?

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2023: Who authors learning? Teaching design with intelligent technology

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2023: Flipping the script: Using artificial intelligence to design authentic assessment rubrics

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Graaf, Christiaan

2025: Exploring how designing in their own language empowers students and supports academic freedom in communication design

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Graff, Christiaan

2006: Learners as Agents: design as a learning vehicle

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2011: Why design cannot be taught: graduate attributes and learning in an age of super-complexity

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2015: Ethics in design and issues of social class: reflecting on the learning unit: Design and the Construction of Class Distinction

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2017: Don’t Touch Me on My Discipline! Decolonisation, Disciplinarity and the Problem of Curricular Coherence

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2006: The role of assessment in the design process

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2000: Reshaping Business by Design

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Groenewald, Jurie

2013: Introducing De Jong: reflections upon reconstructing the life and practice of a white English-speaking designer

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Groenewald, Lize

2015: Mr Paterson's rounded testimony: ethics, intersubjectivity and the interview

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Groenewald, Lize

2007: Capacity building for cultural enterprise

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2025: Designing cultural competence: What South African instructional design can learn from nurses' assessments

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2006: Redesigning Design Education

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2025: History and policy in design education: The proposed development of an interdisciplinary Master of Design History in South Africa

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Haines, Richard John

2007: Breaking the Barriers – Accessing the Theoretical Perspectives on the Road to Structure and Form

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2009: Nurturing The Personal And The Intuitive In The Design Studio

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Hardman, Theresa

2025: Developing a co-created knowledge hub to advance sustainable and inclusive design teaching in architecture

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2025: Fostering criticality through transdisciplinary collaboration

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2025: The design brief: A phenomenological and decolonised approach to undergraduate architectural studies

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2011: Synergy between fashion design education and fashion districts

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Harvey, Neshane

2013: Design process of novice fashion design students: an educator’s reflective analysis

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Harvey, Neshane

2013: Sustaining the Johannesburg fashion design incubators: The role of fashion design education

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Harvey, Neshane

2015: Future fit, socially responsible fashion designers: The role of fashion education

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Harvey, Neshane

2015: Corporate social responsibility: An exploration of initiatives in clothing brands

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Harvey, Neshane

2017: Decolonising Fashion Education with Athol Fugard's Boesman and Lena

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Harvey, Neshane

2017: Transforming Fashion Education to Design with Intent

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Harvey, Neshane

2019: Design-Based Research: Bridging the gap between fashion design education and research on design

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Harvey, Neshane

2021: Masking-up with 4IR fashion design education: A retrospective analysis

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Harvey, Neshane

2025: Students’ attitudes towards change: Co-design in fashion education

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Harvey, Neshane

2021: I think (sustainably) there 4IR: Exploring design thinking through a first principle approach in fashion praxis

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2025: Investigating the role of embedded tactile and sensory technology as a digital disruption in technology-integrated design education

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2025: XR and AI as disruptors in South African art and design education

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2007: The Future of Written Text in Art & Design Education

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Hemmings, Jessica

2021: Developing an educational strategy for emerging technology in design: A case study of the FabLab at FADA, UJ

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Hendricks, Denver

2007: Strategies for Infusing Cultural Elements in Product Design

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Hickling-Hudson, Anne

2011: A role for information architecture in design education: indeterminate problems in design thinking

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2011: Information architecture in design education: developing innovation through structured thinking

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2015: Wicked ethics in Design

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2015: The Firma Model: A Tool for Resolving Complex Societal Problems

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2025: African Abacus: Mapping praxis for inclusive online short course design in architecture

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2007: Making, co-creating and testing games: Learning about nutrition through play – Fitwits

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Hughes, Kristin

2025: Visualising feminism: The role of graphic design used in the Dove campaign on gender advocacy 2004

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2025: Small, local, open, connected: Cosmopolitan localism as a framework for sustainable fashion design

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2013: Green Screen: The Actor’s Challenge

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Jacobs, Nicolaas

2011: Transformation issues in the teaching of architectural design

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Janse van Rensburg, Ariane

2025: Exploring circularity to inform contemporary South African design process

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Jogie, Mohammed

2011: An integrated teaching strategy: Reflecting on a collaborative design project

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2025: Rethinking design education in India: A contextual approach

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Joshi, Priyanka Sewhag

2009: Towards An Educational Strategy For Promoting Social, Environmental And Ethical Awareness In Visual Communications

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2015: The ethics of tastemaking: towards responsible conspicuous consumption

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2007: Design Education for Crafts Communities: a Global - Local Approach

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Katiyar, Vijai Singh

2025: Rethinking design education in India: A contextual approach

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Katiyar, Vijai Singh

2025: Folding memory: The Swahili khanga as a contemporary design language

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Kavishe, Juliet M

2019: Fashion, Frugal Futures: how informal micro-businesses design and develop apparel

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Kempen, Elizabeth L

2021: Social media facilitates custom-made apparel design decisions: The future for business smart fashion designers

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Kempen, Elizabeth L

2023: Higher education: Cultural agent to address consumer demand in the creative fashion economy

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Kempen, Elizabeth L

2019: Theory in Design Research: A supervisor reflection on research design

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Kethro, Philippa

2021: The new 3Rs in design education: A pedagogical suggestion

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Khamala, Martin

2023: The spectrum of disability representation in new media

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2025: Seeds of freedom: The watermelon in Palestine posters

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2017: In Your Hands & Self-Portrait: Introductory Spatial Design Exercises in the First-year Studio

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2019: Hacking the Taste Cycle: A process-oriented view for sustainable interior fit-out

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2025: Speculative interiors for museum artefacts: The decontextualise to decolonise (D2D) project

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2025: Reimagining cultural heritage archives through motion-based digital narratives in design education

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2025: Human-centred, student-led: Building socially sustainable futures in design education

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Khubisa, Hlengiwe

2001: Industrial Design at the University of Botswana: Designing Designers as if Botswana’s Setting Matters

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Khumomotse, Samuel

2013: Determining selection criteria for the compilation of an interior design corpus

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Konigk, Raymond

2015: Interior design’s occupational closure: an ethical opportunity

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Konigk, Raymond

2015: The ethics of tastemaking: towards responsible conspicuous consumption

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Konigk, Raymond

2019: ‘Research Practice’ as Design Informant

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Konigk, Raymond

2019: Simulated practice: The interior treatise through a cumulative design research process.

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Konigk, Raymond

2025: Developing a co-created knowledge hub to advance sustainable and inclusive design teaching in architecture

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Kotzé, Riëtte

2025: Fostering criticality through transdisciplinary collaboration

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Kotzé, Riëtte

2025: The design brief: A phenomenological and decolonised approach to undergraduate architectural studies

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Kotzé, Riëtte

2021: Measures by an advertising company to mitigate the impact of COVID-19: A case study and the Next Normal for design education

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2007: A hermeneutic approach in design education

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Kruger, Runette

2017: Design Education as Woke Work

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Kruger, Runette

2013: Additive manufacturing in 3D product design and development practice: an interdisciplinary shift

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2013: Critical Design as critique of the design status quo

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2007: Designing Breakthrough Bamboo Products from Africa

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Kumar, Krishan L.

2009: Mirror-Mirror-On The Wall

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2013: Interactions: shaping the places we inhabit

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2015: Research Ethics for Practice-Led Research Methodologies in the Creative Disciplines

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2025: Reimagining design education for a new generation of designers

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Lautenbach, Geoffrey

2011: Developing a discourse in fashion design: What is research for fashion design?

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2021: Problem placement in fashion design practice: Reflections and recommendations for fashion design education in an era of complexity

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2015: Team mentoring – a vehicle to foster and encourage ethics and accountability in design education

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Le Cornu, Bianca

2025: Reimagining design education for a new generation of designers

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Le Cornu, Bianca

2019: Typographic Shifts Arising from the Connection between the User, User Interface and Typographic Layout

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2007: Designing Breakthrough Bamboo Products from Africa

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Letsholo, Paulson

2023: Undergraduate design students’ experiences of decision making in the framing stage of a collaborative design project

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Liebenberg, Hein

2015: Team mentoring – a vehicle to foster and encourage ethics and accountability in design education

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2021: Determining jewellery students’ CAD competencies as a means to incorporate a student-led teaching strategy: A case study

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Lötter, Tracey Jane

2025: Earth stewardship in prepress: A model for graphic design educators

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Lottering, Barry John

2017: Decolonising Fashion Education with Athol Fugard's Boesman and Lena

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Lucking, Jacking

2025: Reimagining cultural heritage archives through motion-based digital narratives in design education

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Mabale, Nthabiseng

2023: Buna Africa: The participatory design of an online aquaculture platform

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Mabasa, Nyiko C

2025: From monologue to dialogue: Developing an opportunity syntax map and livelihood framework for the urban poor

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2025: Emergent female gazes: Representations of women by selected women artists from the Sasol New Signatures Art Competition from 2013 to 2023

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Maganya, Anemarie Maboko

2015: Beauty (Lie)s In The Eye Of The Beholder

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2019: In Search of a Wisdom-Seeking Creative Research Approach: Intimacy, creativity and rasa

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Maharajh, Reshma

2025: Resonant realms: Bridging tradition and transformation in Afrikan-centred design

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Maharajh, Reshma

2021: Preparing the future workforce in African universities of technology: A case of new media art as a mutating discipline in the 4IR

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Makwela, Mashaole Jacob

2019: Sincerity, Authenticity and the Artistic Imperative in contemporary Zulu indlamu dance costume

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Manyeneng, Motshidisi

2007: Growing Design Leadership: New Requirements for Design Education in the 21st Century

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2023: Undergraduate design students’ experiences of decision making in the framing stage of a collaborative design project

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Martins, Esther

2023: Exploring student perspectives and challenges in engaging with decolonization in a private higher education institution in South Africa

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Martins, Esther

2025: Reflective engagement with visual AI tools in interior design education: A case study

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Martins, Esther

2025: Digital convergence, possessive viewers, and evolving documentary aesthetics

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Marx, Esmerelda

2013: A customized size chart for the African pear shaped plus-sized South African women

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Mastamet-Mason, Anne

2013: The decision making process of visually impaired consumers in an apparel retail environment

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Mastamet-Mason, Anne

2013: Toward an entrepreneully orientated design model for the SA small business that provides custom-made apparel

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Mastamet-Mason, Anne

2017: History of African indigenous costumes and textiles: Towards decolonising a fashion design curriculum.

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Mastamet-Mason, Anne

2009: Pre-Tech-Man

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2015: Appropriate pedagogy for practice, the ha-ha in the higher education landscape

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2023: Towards empathetic design for social change: An autoethnographic reflection on teaching and learning practices in a communication design project

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Matome, Tsholofelo (Mothusi)

2019: An Unknowable Future: The significance of fashion entrepreneurship education in preparing young designers for the industry

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Mbanga, Tando Sisanda

2017: Research Sleeping Dogs in Fashion Design Departments of South African Universities: A Decolonisation Obstacle?

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2007: New Sites of Practice: Educating New Curators of the Contemporary

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McDermott, Prof Catherine

2025: AI business model for fashion

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McDougall, Liezel

2025: Future-focused design education: Insights from a South African industrial design project presented on a global stage

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2017: Preparing Fashion Students for a Socially Engaged University Project through Zulu Proverbs

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2025: Translocal fashion subjectivities and the ‘Afro’ fashion look: Drum magazine project at a South African comprehensive university

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2025: From observation to interaction: Exploring the impact of lived experiences in design and cultural identity

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McKenzie, Celeste

2025: Speculative interiors for museum artefacts: The decontextualise to decolonise (D2D) project

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2007: Design Education for Crafts Communities: a Global - Local Approach

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Mehta, Shashank

2013: Praxis of Design Education to the current Digital Culture Student

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Meiring, Elzabe

2007: Strategies for Infusing Cultural Elements in Product Design

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Moalosi, Richie

2007: The dilemma of technology acceptance from industrially developed countries to new emerging economies

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Moalosi, Richie

2013: A reflexive account of developing community health care material

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2025: AI in education: Using Gardner’s five minds for the future to understand the effects of AI in design education

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2023: Architectural artisanship skills development strategies implemented through architectural design studio projects focused on process

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Mokaba, Malesela John Victor

2023: Speculative futures: Questioning nanotechnology and sustainable development through industrial design pedagogy

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Mokgatla, Oratile

2015: Corporate social responsibility: An exploration of initiatives in clothing brands

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Moodly, Cheryldene

2019: The Value of Using Hypothesis-Testing Research for Graphic Design: Do decorative pictures contribute to learning?

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Moremoholo, Ts'ekelo P

2023: Integrating design concepts learned in the classroom with real-life issues: A case study

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Moremoholo, Tsekelo Patrick

2025: Using visual storytelling in eco-friendly and socially responsible advertisements to promote sustainable products

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Moremoholo, Tsekelo Patrick

2011: The social dimension of studio space: face-to-face and beyond - exploring online learner experience

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Morkel, Jolanda

2019: Towards a Design Thinking Mindset in Academic Staff Development: Cross-continental design principles for blended learning course design

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Morkel, Jolanda

2025: African Abacus: Mapping praxis for inclusive online short course design in architecture

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Morkel, Jolanda

2019: ‘The Pretty Stuff’: Gender bias and the future of design knowledge in the South African industrial design context

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Moseley, Ashton M

2021: Critical design futures: Challenging the gender data gap through pedagogy

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Moseley, Ashton M

2023: Speculative futures: Questioning nanotechnology and sustainable development through industrial design pedagogy

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Moseley, Ashton Margarete

2023: Physical meets digital: Advancing industrial design higher education through the incorporation of projection-mapping in undergraduate teaching and learning

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Moseley, Ashton Margarete

2021: COVID-19 lockdown music lessons: Digitalising for online music learning

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2025: Interactive narratives for social impact: A new approach to media intervention

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2025: Design audit Botswana — Part I: The drivers and barriers to establishing a government-led design innovation policy for industrial development in the Republic of Botswana

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Mothibedi, Gabriel

2021: Lost connection: Reflections on online jewellery design teaching

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Mthethwa, Khanya

2017: Slow Design (Into Eyilwe Ngokwendeleyo): The Potential for a Decolonized Space Through Graphic Design

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2025: Human-centred, student-led: Building socially sustainable futures in design education

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2017: History of African indigenous costumes and textiles: Towards decolonising a fashion design curriculum.

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2009: Pitches and Proposals: Linking Reseach and Commercial Strategies

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2011: Autoethnography as a research method in design research at Universities

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2011: Ethics and Design Research at South African Higher Education Institutions: a Prolegomenon:

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2013: Ethics in Design Research: a reflection on Intercultural Praxis in the Design Disciplines

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2017: Doing Research to Decolonise Research: to Start at the very Beginning.

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2019: Towards a Pragmatic Code of Ethics for Design Research

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2013: Green Screen: The Actor’s Challenge

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2017: “Community” as the basic architectural unit: rethinking research and practice towards a decolonised education

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Musonda, Innocent

2017: A Humanistic Approach to Designing and Assessing Interactive-narrative Based Social Interventions

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Myers, Hadassah

2021: A systemic framing of the challenges faced in design education during the COVID-19 lockdown

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Myers, Hadassah

2023: Decolonising speculative design: A South African perspective on design and futures thinking

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Myers, Hadassah

2006: Redesigning education for inclusiveness

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M’Rithaa, Mugendi K.

2007: Cape Town’s Search for an Inclusive Future

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M’Rithaa, Mugendi K.

2007: From the Grave to the Cradle: The Eco-Design Case for the Re-Evaluation of Hemp

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M’Rithaa, Mugendi K.

2009: The Ethical Dilemma of a Rapidly Receding Watering Hole: Implications For Design Education

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M’Rithaa, Mugendi K.

2015: Exploring design strategies to determine information needs of caregivers

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M’Rithaa, Mugendi K.

2021: Overcoming educational inequalities associated with online learning in light of a pandemic: A private higher education approach.

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2025: Negotiating interior design’s contextual relevance: Redefining the role of interior design in contemporary South African society

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Nanjala, Audrey

2019: Postgraduate Communication Design Education in South Africa: Challenges and opportunities

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2011: Enhancing Learner Performance in Design Education for Disadvantaged Students

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2025: African Abacus: Mapping praxis for inclusive online short course design in architecture

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2019: Assessment of Postgraduate Studies: Are we missing the mark?

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2025: Human-centred, student-led: Building socially sustainable futures in design education

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Ndovela, Xolisa

2007: A Surface Design intervention for adult inmates infected with HIV/AIDS

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2017: A Decolonial Academy? Addressing the Oxymoron: How a Series of Performative Art-Science Creative Encounters Might Serve as a Toolbox of Ideas

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Neustetter, Marcus

2013: Idealisation as a design approach in enamelled contemporary jewellery

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2015: The perception of registered design protection in the South African Jewellery Industry

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2021: Determining jewellery students’ CAD competencies as a means to incorporate a student-led teaching strategy: A case study

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2017: Decolonizing Thought Practices with Discussion Approaches for Built Environment Educators

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2009: Mapping A Relevant Education And Training Framework For The Jewellery Sector

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Nizetich, Andro

2023: Architectural artisanship skills development strategies implemented through architectural design studio projects focused on process

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Nkambule, Mbongiseni Emmanuel Nathi

2007: Finding the Poem

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2007: Design solutions to community health communication

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Ojo, Olutunmise

2009: Using Educational Research Results To Improve Graphics For Instructional Material

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Ojo, Olutunmise

2013: A customized size chart for the African pear shaped plus-sized South African women

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2021: Preparing the future workforce in African universities of technology: A case of new media art as a mutating discipline in the 4IR

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Olalere, Folasayo Enoch

2017: A Decolonised Approach to Developing Training Materials for Low-Literate Participants of Rural Sewing Income Generating Projects

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Oldewage-Theron, Wilna

2007: Testing the effectiveness of student selection

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Oosthuizen, Phil

2015: Architecture and agency: ethics and accountability in teaching through the application of Open Building principles

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2017: “Community” as the basic architectural unit: rethinking research and practice towards a decolonised education

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2025: Educating future-focused designers in South Africa: A conceptual exploration of the integration of design and futures thinking

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O’Hara, Michele

2025: Design play: Enhancing ideation skills through playful strategies in design education

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Padaruth, Raksha

2019: Towards a Design Thinking Mindset in Academic Staff Development: Cross-continental design principles for blended learning course design

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Parker, Michele

2025: Reimagining fashion design education: Exploring generative AI in early-stage ideation

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Pasiya, Thulisani

2025: Documentary animation as a medium for public history

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2019: Negotiating Material Design Knowledge: Making through design research

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Perold-Bull, Karolien

2023: Re-storying design research: A case study in the context of postgraduate studies

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Perold-Bull, Karolien

2007: Why design students need to be taught more about human vision - a pedagogical case

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Pickard, Michael

2021: The new 3Rs in design education: A pedagogical suggestion

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2021: The new 3Rs in design education: A pedagogical suggestion

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2007: Teaching production technology – doing more with less

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2007: Strategies for Infusing Cultural Elements in Product Design

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Popovic, Prof Vesna

2025: Future-focused design education: Insights from a South African industrial design project presented on a global stage

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Potgieter, Morgan

2021: Problem placement in fashion design practice: Reflections and recommendations for fashion design education in an era of complexity

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Potgieter, Terese

2023: South African futurism: Students’ vision of future aesthetics in fashion design

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Potgieter, Terese

2019: The Imperative for Developing Critical and Creative Thinking Competencies in Postgraduate Design Education

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Potter, Mary-Anne

2021: Dismantling boundaries: Does a transdisciplinary and multi-disciplinary tertiary education approach support the development of creative and critical thinking for an Afrikan design and business context?

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Potter, Mary-Anne

2021: An educational interior design framework for promoting greater inclusivity of the aged living in multigenerational households

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Potter, Mary-Anne

2023: Undergraduate design students’ experiences of decision making in the framing stage of a collaborative design project

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Potter, Mary-Anne

2023: Who authors learning? Teaching design with intelligent technology

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Potter, Mary-Anne

2023: South African futurism: Students’ vision of future aesthetics in fashion design

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2017: Object Biographies as a method for Communication Design students to construct knowledge in the Design Studies classroom

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Pretorius, Deirdre

2025: Seeds of freedom: The watermelon in Palestine posters

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Pretorius, Deirdre

2023: Visual mapping and meaning-creation: Making research visual for design-based thinkers

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Pretorius, Naretha

2011: Interior Designers: Unacknowledged role players in South African retail design

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2013: Embracing a culture of Active Citizenship in Interior Design education

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2017: Reinventing design teaching in an era of exponential growth

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2023: Appreciative inquiry in design research: A case study from interior design

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2021: Lost connection: Reflections on online jewellery design teaching

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2019: Typographic Shifts Arising from the Connection between the User, User Interface and Typographic Layout

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Ralarala, Monwabisi

2013: The decision making process of visually impaired consumers in an apparel retail environment

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Ramatla, Aubrey

2007: The role of ergonomics in the clothing industry with specific reference to clothing machinists

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2017: Contesting the Decolonisation Narrative: Towards an Entrepreneurship Based Graphic Design Curricula

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Rasedile, Tumelo

2009: Interdisciplinary Theory Teaching: Can One Size Really Fit All?

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Raubenheimer, Landi

2023: Buna Africa: The participatory design of an online aquaculture platform

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Rouhani, Qurban

2023: Design lecturers' pedagogical approach to practical studio sessions during the rapid transition to online learning

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2007: Successful learning through assessment design

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2021: Use of automation and artificial intelligence as a sub-set of knowledge management domain in architectural organisations in South Africa

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2011: Understanding cultural identity and visual communication in the appropriation of iconic photojournal

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Saayman-Hattingh, Heidi

2023: An exploration of co-creating South African city brands to revive the tourism industry post a global pandemic

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2011: Enhancing Learner Performance in Design Education for Disadvantaged Students

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2001: Buchanan’s Matrix: A Framework for Strategic Alliance between design and business management

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Sauthoff, Marian

2015: OgilvyEarth: is this what a future communications agency looks like?

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Schaefer, Carmen

2021: Exploring manual and digital pattern design methodologies towards the development of the design education offering

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Scheepers, Annelize

2025: From classroom to code and back again: The cyclical knowledge exchange between game development and teaching

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Scheepers, Henk

2021: SPOT, the 4IR soft skills strategy for South African interior design graduates: An integrative literature review

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Scheffer, Leana

2021: Measures by an advertising company to mitigate the impact of COVID-19: A case study and the Next Normal for design education

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Schiller, Selma

2025: Exploring circularity to inform contemporary South African design process

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Schiller, Selma

2007: Developing a Personal and Professional Development (PPD) curriculum for first-year design students

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2009: Extending The Learning Landscape: Adapting To A New Student

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Schoeman, Mornay

2023: South African futurism: Students’ vision of future aesthetics in fashion design

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Schreuder, Diandra

2007: The dilemma of technology acceptance from industrially developed countries to new emerging economies

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Sealetsa, Oanthata J

2019: Sincerity, Authenticity and the Artistic Imperative in contemporary Zulu indlamu dance costume

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2023: Exploring non-placement work-integrated-learning (WIL) through industry-endorsed hybrid-curricular projects for fashion graduate success

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2023: Towards empathetic design for social change: An autoethnographic reflection on teaching and learning practices in a communication design project

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Sekhu, Tumishang

2006: A Design Studio to the Faculty of Design - Polytechnic of Milan

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2017: Using Digital Imaging Technology to Decolonize Education in a Museum Context

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Shangase, Mlungisi Ronald

2019: Designing Social Value: Informed Programme Development for Future-Focused Social Entrepreneurship in Africa

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Sheik, Adelaid Margaret

2021: An educational interior design framework for promoting greater inclusivity of the aged living in multigenerational households

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Shireen Govender

2013: The demise of design programmes within the public FET system in South Africa: a case for non-formal education

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2017: Contesting the Decolonisation Narrative: Towards an Entrepreneurship Based Graphic Design Curricula

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2023: Visual mapping and meaning-creation: Making research visual for design-based thinkers

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2025: From classroom to code and back again: The cyclical knowledge exchange between game development and teaching

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2007: Why design students need to be taught more about human vision - a pedagogical case

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Singh, Gurpreet

2009: An Evaluation Of Interpreted Technical and Aesthetical Design Suitability in Garments

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Slegtenhorst, Lisa

2007: How green is your wardrobe?

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2011: Developing a discourse in fashion design: What is research for fashion design?

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2017: Transforming Fashion Education to Design with Intent

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2025: Future Earth: An approach for planet-centred interdisciplinary-design collaboration through STEAM(D) and biodesign for environmental sustainability in tertiary arts, design and engineering education in South Africa

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2023: Using SLOC as a co-design inquiry tool into nomadic pedagogy for a Design+Ecology project

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2025: Investigating the role of embedded tactile and sensory technology as a digital disruption in technology-integrated design education

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2019: Hacking the Taste Cycle: A process-oriented view for sustainable interior fit-out

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2013: Designing education for sale: a price tag on Universities of Technology

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2025: Humanising online creative education: Exploring student engagement in a short course in copywriting

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Speechly, Mandy

2015: Cultivating voice through personal manifesto-making – a strategy for developing accountability, ethics and integrity in tertiary design curricula

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Staden-Garbett, Miranthe

2006: No more Utopias: Modeling Incremental Change in Design Practice and Pedagogy

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2025: Feet on the ground, eyes on the design: An immersive design approach to spatial design education

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2023: Exploring the need for fashion drawing skills training amongst unqualified fashion entrepreneurs in the Emfuleni local municipality

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Strydom, Le-nika

2019: Fashion, Frugal Futures: how informal micro-businesses design and develop apparel

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Strydom, Mariette

2019: Curriculum Development for Fashion Product Development in an ODeL Context

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Strydom, Mariette

2021: Social media facilitates custom-made apparel design decisions: The future for business smart fashion designers

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Strydom, Mariette

2025: Clothing manufacturing micro-enterprises (CMMEs): Preserving cultural pride through fashion production

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Strydom, Mariette

2007: Continuing professional development for product designers: barriers and opportunities

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Sui, Kin Wai Michael

2019: Student Photography and Ethical Clearance: Do we need a tailored code for research ethics?

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2000: Terra Incognita: Mapping a Regional Design History in South Africa

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Sutherland, Ian

2023: Exploring non-placement work-integrated-learning (WIL) through industry-endorsed hybrid-curricular projects for fashion graduate success

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Sutherland, Merie

2023: Exploring non-placement work-integrated-learning (WIL) through industry-endorsed hybrid-curricular projects for fashion graduate success

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2015: Ethics and packaging design: Marketing of sugary breakfast cereals to South African children

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2013: The Myth of Unified Global Culture: transcoding national cultures within website interfaces

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Swanepoel, Mike

2007: Intersections of the Indigenous and Modern in Settlement Planning Concepts and Traditions in Africa

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2007: Teaching production technology – doing more with less

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Tempelman, Erik

2007: Innovation is hope

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2019: Representations of Agency for Female Documentary Subjects in Selected Films on Netflix

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2021: Social media facilitates custom-made apparel design decisions: The future for business smart fashion designers

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2025: Innovation by invitation? A hybrid developmental design model for stirring co-creation in socio-technical continuums

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2015: Architecture and agency: ethics and accountability in teaching through the application of Open Building principles

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2023: Exploring non-placement work-integrated-learning (WIL) through industry-endorsed hybrid-curricular projects for fashion graduate success

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2025: AI business model for fashion

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2013: Toward an entrepreneully orientated design model for the SA small business that provides custom-made apparel

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2001: Academic Knowledge Management

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van der Merwe, Johan

2017: History of African indigenous costumes and textiles: Towards decolonising a fashion design curriculum.

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2019: ‘Research Practice’ as Design Informant

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2019: Simulated practice: The interior treatise through a cumulative design research process.

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2023: Appreciative inquiry in design research: A case study from interior design

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2025: XR and AI as disruptors in South African art and design education

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2019: Nomads and Narratives: Navigating personal and professional literacies in design education

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2009: The Ethical Dilemma of a Rapidly Receding Watering Hole: Implications For Design Education

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2023: Envisioning an effective education system for Generation Alpha focused on skills development in the fashion design higher education sector

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2023: Envisioning an effective education system for Generation Alpha focused on skills development in the fashion design higher education sector

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2017: A Decolonised Approach to Developing Training Materials for Low-Literate Participants of Rural Sewing Income Generating Projects

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2023: Exploring the need for fashion drawing skills training amongst unqualified fashion entrepreneurs in the Emfuleni local municipality

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van Staden, Hanlie

2021: Use of automation and artificial intelligence as a sub-set of knowledge management domain in architectural organisations in South Africa

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2023: Architectural artisanship skills development strategies implemented through architectural design studio projects focused on process

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2006: Designosaurus HESA: Laying bare the bones of a dilemma

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2013: Supporting a community through design: Melville Johannesburg

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2019: Communication Design Futures: A pilot user interface course case study at the University of Johannesburg

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2023: Buna Africa: The participatory design of an online aquaculture platform

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2023: Publish or parent: Reflective, creative work on the cost of parenting for female academics pre-, mid- and post- the COVID-19 pandemic

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2023: It's a zoo in there: Reflections and case studies from collaboration and participation design with Johannesburg Zoo Edu-Centre 2011–2023

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2019: Typographic Shifts Arising from the Connection between the User, User Interface and Typographic Layout

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