Awareness-based design: The role of making aware for a transformative learning practice

This PhD explores the role of awareness-based design in making intangible experiences visible — in the context of transformative learning (TL). This PhD asks: how to make intangible experiences visible during the process of TL? Through practice-based design research, the methods and sites of inquiry bring design to embodied awareness and embodied awareness to design (Hayashi, 2021). The PhD develops open-ended awareness-based design prompts to support educators and learners to become aware of non-verbal, embodied and relational experiences within a social field (Böll & Senge, 2020; Scharmer & Kaeufer, 2015).