Practitioner Feedback and Interior Design Students' Creativity in a Lighting design course

Despite being used extensively in design pedagogies, the practice of feedback in studio classrooms has not, received sufficient attention. There are limited theoretical and operational guidelines to help instructors, improve students’ learning outcomes using this educational method. Taking into account the complexity and, diversity of feedback, the authors conducted a mixed-method study on this account within the scope of, interior design education. As institutional programs connect more with professional environments, instructors are no longer the sole source of feedback in design studios. Invited practitioners offer students, the insightful understanding of current trends, manufacture capacities, and market challenges. This type of, feedback, together with the ones of instructors, are likely to influence students’ creative performance. Three, consecutive lighting design classes from 2015 to 2017 at a Midwest land-grant University became the, context for the authors to explore the impact of practitioner feedback on their students’ creativity. This, paper is a presentation and discussion of their initial findings.,

Keywords: practitioner, creativity, interior design, lighting design