Visual narratives play a significant role in shaping how individuals perceive and experience design. While widely used in practice, their integration into design education remains largely intuitive and lacks structured pedagogical approaches. This practice-based study explores how visual narratives can be systematically taught through visual culture contexts such as music videos, cinema spaces, architectural facades and translates these insights into spatial design learning. Conducted in a primary-level design course students analyzed cultural expressions focusing on space, material, color, and user interaction. Qualitative analysis of outputs and learning processes revealed enhanced narrative thinking, spatial understanding, and cultural identity formation. Visual narratives are central to design yet underexplored in pedagogy. The proposed 6-stage Cultural Visual Narrative Framework: Exposure, Observation, Analysis, Representation, Translation, Reflection that offers replicable structure. Findings demonstrate that cultural immersion triples conceptual clarity versus traditional methods, supporting experiential learning for meaningful design education.
Nirali Parekh Soni (Wed,) studied this question.