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Soft skills are competencies that have emerged as essential for 21st-century professionals. There are still few studies on promoting or enhancing these skills in higher education in the Design field. In this paper, we focus on three soft skills that are important for Design: Empathy, Communication, and Teamworking. This research aimed to involve students in identifying and creating teaching strategies that make them learn these skills. It is, therefore, participatory research that took place through a co-creation workshop. For this qualitative research, we used thematic analysis as an approach for coding and interpreting the results. As a result, we identified nine strategies to nurture the learning of these skills in Design education.
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This work was financially supported by the Centro de Investigação em Arquitetura, Urbanismo e Design - CIAUD (Center for Research in Architecture, Urbanism and Design) of the Faculdade de Arquitetura da Universidade de Lisboa (Faculty of Architecture of the University of Lisbon) and also by the Universidade do Estado do Pará - UEPA (State University of Pará), Brasil.
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de Freitas, A.P.N., Almendra, R.A. (2021). What if…? Strategies to Teaching Communication, Empathy and Teamworking for Design Students by Design Students. In: Shin, C.S., Di Bucchianico, G., Fukuda, S., Ghim , YG., Montagna, G., Carvalho, C. (eds) Advances in Industrial Design. AHFE 2021. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 260. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80829-7_19
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