Mindful of process: scaffolds for collaboration discourse in design education

Given the critical importance of collaboration in lifelong learning, this paper highlights the need for interventions that help learners develop awareness of the social dimensions of group problem solving and adopt patterns of discourse leading to more successful collaborative learning outcomes. In pursuit of this, I present scaffolds that were piloted on students learning the practice of collaborative human-centered design, and argue for the larger significance of design as a framework for developing collaborative capacities.