Analysing Creative Design Process: A Set of Tools to Understand Activity in its Socio‐cultural and Historic Context

Previous theoretical frameworks used to research and explain creative design processes tend privilege individual expression not address the context in which process occurs. This is problematic due ways activities are embedded shaped by socio-cultural historic contexts. In this article we focus on cultural activity theory (CHAT) its analytical systems can be reveal context. We draw tools concepts of CHAT data from a study visual communication (VCD) students lecturers situated within transnational higher education (TNHE) at university China. An framework was constructed practices learning. The dynamic nature offers methods set capture powerful parts played artifacts interactions specific sociocultural learning