ABSTRACT

This chapter traces the development of a specific pedagogical approach. This approach has provided the space for public action, aesthetic protest and discourse to emerge as outcomes. It is rooted in the provision of certain types of experience that pivot the design of course instruction. The chapter bases upon the assumption that it is the nature of experiences that influence and guide the material manifestations of thought. Along with sustainable outcomes in the form of Product-Service Systems and radical new system concepts, new ways of educating must include a parallel focus on the experience of the individuals who create these processes and outcomes. The chapter proposes five types of human experience: subjective experience; objective experience; participative experience; contesting experience and reflective experience. It concludes with proposing that the confluence of the five experiences described together produce an aesthetic of experience that lies in its residual impact on the learner.