Learner Centered Design Education

Soumitri Varadarajan
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What if teaching isn’t about delivering knowledge, but about co-creating meaning? In Learner Centered Design Education, Soumitri Varadarajan reflects on 35 years of teaching industrial design. These episodes are not lessons—they are provocations and quiet acts of unlearning. Influenced by Paulo Freire—whose work Soumitri encountered at 25—this podcast invites educators to rethink authority, embrace uncertainty, and imagine classrooms as shared worlds of discovery.

  1. I am going to Dubai

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    I am going to Dubai

    Dubai is a special kind of place. Following on from that statement is another similar statement - every place is a special kind of place. To go as an ethnographer, as a researcher, as a theorist is a very particular way to look at places. Places in this vein of thinking hold secrets. They tell stories. What secrets does Dubai hold? What does Dubai broadcast, that we do not hear, because we have not tuned in? That is my way of saying that we rush to judge. In doing that, we miss the opportunity to develop a love for, an affection for a place, a people. Links coming soon.

    11 phút
  2. D4X

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    D4X

    The Provocation in this episode is: Some engineers view "design engineering" as redundant, believing that true engineering already includes design. If you want to go down the rabbit hole of design engineering is an oxymoron, industrial design engineer is an oxymoron - you will find a lot that is enjoyable. Check it out. Alec Issigonis - the person who visiualized and realized the Mini (Mr Bean Version) was an engineer. And a guru to James Dyson. This Episode is on D4X. As an opener into a series - of episodes that look at what happens when designers work inside manufacturing enterprises. The Author of this Podcast Series? https://soumitri.owlstown.net/ The Website where transcriptions can be found? https://rawslearn.wordpress.com/ NOTE: I dont upload transcripts of all episodes. I do upload transcripts if someone in the audience requests a transcript. These podcast episodes will become text one day. In a book or a paper. Or that is an aspiration I mull over.

    17 phút
  3. How can the design of a drug trial inform pedagogy?

    04/10/2025

    How can the design of a drug trial inform pedagogy?

    Do check out live transcriptions for this episode.

    7 phút
  4. Is human life span 500 years now?

    04/10/2025

    Is human life span 500 years now?

    Do check out the live transcription as you listen to this episode.

    12 phút
  5. When teachers say "I am the Project"

    26/09/2025

    When teachers say "I am the Project"

    This is a letter to my fellow teachers. 6 of them. They have worked with me to teach in the first year - of an Industrial Design Program.

    32 phút
  6. Precision Fermentation, Singularity and the future

    03/09/2025

    Precision Fermentation, Singularity and the future

    This is an episode that provides an entry point into the speculations about the future. It provides an entry into the world of investors, researchers and those that are constructing the future inside the labs. Here are some search terms for you to explore these areas: Precision fermentation Tony Seba Ray Kurzweil (Invention - A Life a book by James Dyson Apple in China the book by Patrick McGee You tube search terms and playlists: Tony Seba - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLU7nrcTLINEQ_Lo0SPRRAGgaCg7kQ0LJy&si=RSGnKvIgWPPOc0pS Precision Fermentation Molecular Gastronomy ANT - Actor Network Theory SCOT - Social Construction of Technology The Social Object Book - https://www.intellectbooks.com/the-social-object

    43 phút
  7. LTP in a Studio Setting

    27/08/2025

    LTP in a Studio Setting

    This a podcast episode for a project collaborator. A fellow teacher. A colleague. We are collaborating to teach a studio. How do you teach an Industrial Design Studio in 2025? Okay more questions: How do you teach studios in the contemporary?Would you use an LTP framing? Actually an LTS - Lecture-Tutorial_Studio?How would you teach a studio that enables students to enter a pathway towards a future in medicine related work? MedTech yes. But actually medical discovery work. This is my academic site: https://soumitri.owlstown.net/ This is the site for the Podcast: https://rawslearn.wordpress.com/

    1 giờ 9 phút
  8. Glossary of Actors

    21/08/2025

    Glossary of Actors

    This is a short (18 minute) podcast about making a list of or a glossary of actors. I use gym work and muscle cars to illuminate, to throw light on the existence of a specific language. Of specific terms, which can be drafted to serve in an orchestra of actors.

    18 phút
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What if teaching isn’t about delivering knowledge, but about co-creating meaning? In Learner Centered Design Education, Soumitri Varadarajan reflects on 35 years of teaching industrial design. These episodes are not lessons—they are provocations and quiet acts of unlearning. Influenced by Paulo Freire—whose work Soumitri encountered at 25—this podcast invites educators to rethink authority, embrace uncertainty, and imagine classrooms as shared worlds of discovery.

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  • Nhà sáng tạo
    Soumitri Varadarajan
  • Năm hoạt động
    2021 - 2026
  • Tập
    75
  • Xếp hạng
    Sạch
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    © Soumitri Varadarajan
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    Learner Centered Design Education