Abstract:
Practice-based education (PBE) offers the students an invaluable experience to gain knowledge and improve their skills towards diverse fields
which prove the realities in the social and physical context.’ (Clifford, Macy, Albi, Bricker & Rahn, 2005). This method becomes more
significant when it comes to Design education in university teaching. To provide an effective Practice-based education, university education
system undergoes a complex and time-intensive process. The main objective of this research is to explore the possibility and suitability of
practice based educational system in nurturing the students to build up a design rational and to find out the essential factors to be considered
while at teaching and designing projects. This was experimented through a design project carried out for the Level I students of Department of
Integrated Design.
The study describes how student capabilities were gradually developed in forming a design rational by using the Human body as a design
context. Here the form of education becomes more unique and significant, that their approaches became successful more than to the expected
level. It was through practice and experience that the students achieve expected targets in the design project. The final outcome of the project is
a result of different activities followed with workshops and immense experiments. A solitary observation was followed throughout the project
as to understand how beneficial is practice based education in improving student skills and how the projects must be designed setting out
certain goals and objectives with special reference to Design education.
The results of the research analysis concluded that practice or activity based learning system becomes more effective for design education, when
students’ physiological and psychological abilities are evaluated and gradually expanded by offering them the understanding about the context,
method of integration, theoretical knowledge while developing an own sense for design.
