Two points that may help come to mind.
Firstly, architects. It has long been understood in architectural
education that an architectural education may be a very good
education for not being an architect (as well as being one!). At the
end of my first term as an architecture student I was summoned to the
principal of the Architectural Association and told that although I
would never make an architect they would keep me in the school
because they were good for me. He was right on both counts. Amongst
architects who have excelled in other fields, we find the novelist
Thomas Hardy, and the composer Yannis Xenakis.
Second, design. For some bizarre reason (especially given the intent
of this list), we sometimes subdivide design into design-this and
design-that. But we all deal in and with design. How much more
sensible, then (as some schools have done), to teach design and allow
later exploration of and specialisation into design-this and design-
that. Design is the discipline (and the way of thinking)!
Ranulph
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