Intercultural Collaboration by Design

Visual Activities for Teamwork and Virtual Exchange
2. Auflage 2027
ISBN: 978-1-032-91615-6
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 246 mm

Intercultural Collaboration by Design explores one of the central challenges of our increasingly connected world: How do people who see the world differently come to understand one another well enough to create something meaningful together?

Drawing on more than a decade of research and practice in Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL), this book presents visual thinking as a collaborative practice for building understanding across cultures, disciplines, and distances. Through sketches, photographs, diagrams, maps, storyboards, and other visual artifacts, collaborators learn to make perspectives visible, navigate difference with curiosity, and develop ideas together before moving toward solutions.

Organized around the natural arc of collaboration, from first introductions to final reflection, the book combines the Six Dimensions of Intercultural Teamwork with hands-on activities that help teams strengthen relationships, communicate across difference, and create meaningful work together.

Whether you are a university student, educator, designer, workplace professional, community organizer, or anyone collaborating across cultures, no prior design experience is required. What matters is curiosity, careful observation, and a willingness to learn with and from others. Every meaningful collaboration begins with understanding. From that foundation emerge new ideas, stronger relationships, and new possibilities for the people, communities, and shared future we create together.

Zielgruppe

Academic, Postgraduate, and Professional Practice & Development

Autoren/Hrsg.

Emans, Denielle

Murdoch-Kitt, Kelly

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Unternehmenskommunikation
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Geographie: Sachbuch, Reise
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften, Biologie: Sachbuch, Naturführer
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Ökologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I · Beginning: Seeing Ourselves and One Another  1. Visual Thinking Primer  2. Six Dimensions of Intercultural Teamwork 3. Designing Collaboration  Part II · Middle 4. Making Dialogue Visible 5. Identity Beyond the Surface  Part III · Making 6. Visual Storytelling and Co-Creation Chapter 7. Intercultural Collaboration for Social Good 8. Innovation Through Making  Part IV · Ending  9. The Life of Ideas

Über Autor(innen)

Denielle J. Emans is an Associate Professor in the Department of Media + Design + Communication at Roger Williams University in Rhode Island, USA. She is passionate about collaboration, storytelling, and empowering teams to build strong relationships to fuel creative action.

Kelly M. Murdoch-Kitt is an Associate Professor at the University of Michigan's Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design. She is a user experience designer and educator focused on people, systems, and interpersonal interactions.

Their collaborative research has been recognized by the Design Incubation Teaching Awards and the Carol Hollenshead Inspire Award for Excellence in Promoting Equity & Social Change. They have co-authored chapters in the Routledge Handbook of Sustainable Design, the Handbook of Sustainability and Social Science Research, and Collaboration in Design Education.