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A multidisciplinary skill set for collaboration has been identified as essential, yet practical guidance for educating such designers remains limited. 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The evolving nature of digital media technology has resulted in a profession in a state of flux with increasingly complex communication and design problems. The ability to collaborate and interact with other disciplines has recently been strongly articulated as an imperative skill for the future designer. How the education of such a designer is facilitated in practice is less well defined. The implementation of authentic problem-solving processes that introduce design students to workplace realities is often missing in design education. In order to manage the increasing complexities of design problems and technology a learning and teaching approach that facilitates the interaction of multiple disciplines was implemented and trialed over a period of two years in an undergraduate digital media design programme. This approach, known as the POOL model framework, is based on a ‘pool’ of resources and people to be applied as needed when responding to complex design problems. This paper focuses on the extent to which complex interactive design projects can be managed through multidisciplinary collaboration. Feedback from students and educators is presented and which reveals that the framework does provide an opportunity for students to resolve complex design and technological problems and contribute to project outcomes that could not be achieved when working individually.  \nKey words  \nmultidisciplinary collaboration, digital media design education, POOL Model framework, alternative learning and teaching approach  \nIntroduction  \nIncreasing complexity is one of the most pertinent issues regarding the role and future of design, designers and their education. Our lives have become more complex; interconnectedness has facilitated the building of a global society, greater awareness of systems and their dynamics in a rapidly changing world (Sanders, 2003; Davis, 2011; Malouf, 2011) . According to Barnes-Powell (2008:378), the ‘two momentum trends of this century are growing complexity and increasing rates of change’. Advancementsin digital technology can be directly linked to these developments (Malouf, 2011) . The design industry has undergone significant change since the introduction of the  \ncomputer and the emergence of interactive digital media. The widespread growth of the Internet has created a wealth of new areas in which designers are engaged and has also transformed their work, creative processes and role. Early on, it was argued by commentators such as Nelson (1995), McCoy (1998) and Viemeister (2001) that a new breed of designer was required to manage these new and technologically complex media forms. Indeed, Heller (2001:ix) noted that ‘a new designer is needed to orchestrate and construct the future’.  \nDesigners now need to be able to navigate within a shifting economic, social, cultural and technological landscape; design and communication problems have become increasingly complex. They are often part of larger systems, with design solutions required to be effective on more than just a component level, but for ‘a group of interacting, interrelated, and interdependent components that form a complex and unified whole’(Pegasus Communications, 2012) . Problem-solving today often includes a multitude of other disciplines (e.g. Cullen, 1998; McCoy, 1998; Kerlow, 2001; Kelly, 2005; Whyte and Bessant, 2007; Dubberly, 2011; Hunt, 2011) and‘boundaries between design disciplines are more fluid’(Icograda, 2011:8), thus resulting in the growth of interdisciplinary knowledge. This situation is challenging for designers because in this ‘complex, chan","cbCaij6dlg82BcGy","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaij6dlg82BcGy","pdf",1140242,13,"English","# Introduction\n## Complexity in digital media design and education\n## The need for multidisciplinary collaboration\n# POOL model framework approach\n## Resource-and-people pool for complex problem solving\n# Outcomes and feedback\n## Student and educator perspectives","[{\"question\":\"Why is increasing complexity considered a key issue in design education?\",\"answer\":\"Increasing complexity affects the role and future of design and requires designers to handle more complex communication and design problems, especially as digital media technology evolves.\"},{\"question\":\"What problem does the POOL model framework aim to address?\",\"answer\":\"It targets the lack of authentic workplace-aligned problem-solving processes in design education, and supports interaction among multiple disciplines when managing complex design and technology challenges.\"},{\"question\":\"What do the reported feedback and outcomes indicate about the framework?\",\"answer\":\"Student and educator feedback suggests the framework enables learners to resolve complex design and technological problems and produce project outcomes that are difficult to achieve when working individually.\"}]","Managing Increasing Complexity in Undergraduate Digital Media Design Education - The impact and benefits of multidisciplinary collaboration | PDF",1792091234,33]