Priming culture differences in a creative design course: The influence of digital stimuli

Zhengya Gong, Milene Gonçalves, Ummi Latif, Georgi V. Georgiev

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Abstract

Extensive research has focused on the influence of culture on individuals’ performance in design, with either positive or negative effects. Moreover, studies have shown that it is possible to prime individuals’ cultural values to influence their behaviours in design. However, to the best of our knowledge, no study has explored priming culture in design, especially with digital stimuli. Therefore, we conducted a pilot study to explore the influence of priming culture by digital stimuli in design. First, we created video-based digital stimuli to prime individuals’ individualism versus collectivism (IC) cultural values. We tested the digital stimuli in an ideation exercise during a creative design course that aimed to explore and implement essential creative problem-solving and design thinking methodologies in practice for students. The results showed that the collectivism digital stimulus increased the participants’ IC value. However, in the other two conditions, the participants’ IC values also increased, which was unexpected. Therefore, we discussed the role that enjoyable group ideation plays in participants’ IC values. Furthermore, we found that their design aim changes by priming IC values. These findings can support the development of educational practices aimed at encouraging design novices in teams independently of their culture and inspire researchers to further explore the influence of priming culture in design.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 25th International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education
Subtitle of host publicationResponsible Innovation for Global Co-Habitation, E and PDE 2023
EditorsIsabel Ordonez Pizarro, Paolo Sustersic, Lyndon Buck, Hilary Grierson, Erik Bohemia
PublisherThe Design Society
Pages37-42
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781912254194
Publication statusPublished - 2023
Event25th International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education, E and PDE 2023 - Barcelona, Spain
Duration: 7 Sept 20238 Sept 2023

Publication series

NameProceedings of the 25th International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education: Responsible Innovation for Global Co-Habitation, E and PDE 2023

Conference

Conference25th International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education, E and PDE 2023
Country/TerritorySpain
CityBarcelona
Period7/09/238/09/23

Bibliographical note

Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.

Keywords

  • collectivism
  • creative design
  • Digital stimulus
  • individualism
  • priming cultural differences

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