Furniture design is a relatively important course for environmental art and design majors, which can make students further understand the practical use of ergonomics and the matching of furniture styles in interior design. The furniture design course itself includes both technical and artistic aspects.
Furniture design classroom teaching to achieve the effect of clear training objectives
In the classroom teaching adhere to the students are the main subject of the classroom, for the conceptual professional terms to explain clearly, to achieve a clear concept, so that students have an in-depth understanding of professional concepts. In the teaching process for the furniture course design in each chapter of the content of the key points, difficulties, creative points to step clear, hierarchical elaboration out.
The training objectives of the furniture design course are of a certain professional nature. Furniture design is the prior conception, planning and drawing of furniture. Furniture design belongs to the category of industrial design and has properties that are different from any other industrial product. Furniture has not only independent monoliths, but also systems that need to be integrated to meet the requirements of a particular environment for use.
Design is not the invention of a product, but the design of its form and the communication of its use according to its function. Furniture product design should be viewed at the level of product service system design. The combination of didactic teaching and interactive, to complement each other’s strengths and weaknesses, learning ability, collaboration and innovation.
Furniture design classroom teaching to further strengthen the use of practical teaching methods
In the classroom teaching of furniture design, students are required to have excellent hand-drawing ability, the imagination of three-dimensional space, the integrity of model making, and the ability to operate common software, the cultivation of these abilities is conducive to stimulating students’ interest in design and production.
In the actual teaching process there is a tight schedule, heavy tasks, short teaching cycle, limited practical equipment and venues, which to a certain extent affects the expected goals of teaching. Planning specific steps in the teaching process: furniture design is to express the shape, function, scale and size, color, material and structure of furniture by means of graphics (and models) and text descriptions.
The whole process of design includes collecting information, conception, sketching, evaluation, trial samples, drawing production drawings, and further modification of samples. To master the design methods related to furniture design. Combine with social needs in terms of subject design, compile some practice-related subject design about innovative and diversified integration to enrich the teaching content.
How to stimulate students’ interest in inquiry in furniture design classroom teaching
We actively explore the diversification of modes in classroom teaching. In fact, furniture design is both an art and an applied science. It mainly includes 3 aspects of modeling design, structural design and process design. In the material selection, production process, discipline, curriculum and professional construction of relevance a beautiful piece of furniture (masterpiece) is not only a practical, comfortable and durable object, but also a bearer of culture.
In order to stimulate students’ interest in learning, through the process of hand-drawing drawings of classic furniture pieces and telling related short stories, copying and reproducing classic works of modern furniture and combining them with theoretical teaching, students are motivated to become interested in the masters of modern furniture history and their classic works, to learn all their details and the interesting stories belonging to them, so that students know that the history of modern furniture is not full of tedious They will learn that the history of modern furniture is not full of boring theoretical knowledge, but rather a series of fascinating stories made up of people and objects.
This can further stimulate students’ enthusiasm for learning, promote the cultivation of their practical ability, and obtain good teaching effect.
Summary of my experience and effective ways in the experiment of practical teaching methods
(1) Let students move and make the classroom come alive in the teaching process to show the initiative of students’ learning. The classroom display session includes pre-study and exchange, clear objectives, group cooperation, display and enhancement, and interspersed consolidation.
Determine the specific flow of learning: learning objectives, learning tasks, key points and difficulties, learning method guidance. Determine the specific process of practice: tiered learning, tiered objectives, tiered achievement, tiered training.
(2) Deal with the requirements of students’ learning levels in classroom teaching. First, they should complete the problems predetermined by the teacher on the learning plan, understand and learn the knowledge and skills to be mastered by the text and so on; second, they should question the problems covered in the learning plan, ask their own questions, and add to the problems not covered to enrich and improve them; third, they should dare to question the established facts and conclusions in the books, and express their own opinions and conclusions.
(3) By implementing an independent and open classroom, students are urged to actively engage in self-study, communication, feedback, consolidation, and expansion in the learning process. The guided learning process should go through self-study and self-exploration – cooperative inquiry – demonstration and enhancement – questioning and evaluation – Summarization; student-centered, change the emphasis on knowledge transfer to the development of ability, it is based on the feedback of students’ self-learning information, teacher-student activities as a carrier, the discovery of problems, self-inquiry as the main line, the development of a variety of student abilities as the goal, focusing on the guidance of students and learning strategy education, effectively promote the subjectivity of students, reflecting the characteristics of modern education.
In short, the teaching means of furniture design course should fully grasp the psychological characteristics of students, with the help of multimedia technology and practical teaching methods, so that students are guided by interest on the one hand to master the knowledge, on the other hand to broaden the knowledge level and consolidate the design methodology. In the future furniture design field, new theories, new technologies and new materials are constantly arising, teachers should be good at learning and summarizing, constantly updating their teaching methods and creating a fulfilling and relaxing learning atmosphere for students.