Hi, Gulden,
The reason you have not found much is that the field is new in many
regards. While there is a deep history going back to people like
Buckminster Fuller and Victor Papanek, there are few accounts of the
actual education and pedagogy embedded in their work.
There are some places to look, however. Fuller's World Design Science
Decade produced a significant number of reports. They are hard to find,
but a good librarian can track them down. At one point, I had half a
dozen of them in grainy but readable xerox copies. As your librarian.
If you read Fuller's great work, Critical Path, you'll get some
overviews.
Read Papanek's work and follow the traces there. If you look for
Papanek's students, you'll get some good stories. Many are now senior
designers or professors, even university presidents such as Yrjo
Sotamaa, just retired from the presidency of University of Art and
Design Helsinki UIAH.
This requires some research of your own. I'd suggest you write some
letters, see if you can do some telephone interviews, perhaps get
support from your university to make a few first-hand visits. If you can
gather this information to develop a good thesis, it could become the
foundation of a terrific doctoral project.
Prof. Ezio Manzini at Politecnico di Milano should be able to offer you
some good clues.
Another key figure is Prof. Chris Ryan of the VEIL project at University
of Melbourne. He's been involved in sustainable design education in
Australia and in Europe.
Swinburne University is a good source of expertise. Prof. Frank Fisher
is a central figure in the field. He was the first Australian
Environmental Educator of the Year in 2007-8. His current project
involves helping us to integrate sustainability into all aspects of our
curriculum, an important goal for Swinburne Design over the next five
years. Simon Jackson, Denis Smitka, and Katherine Bissett-Johnson all
have good information. If you visit our web site at
http://www.swinburne.edu.au/design/
you can find all of them.
The Designers Accord is another great source of information on
contemporary and recent sustainable design education. Visit their web
site at
http://www.designersaccord.org/
If you browse around, you'll find many resources that help. This
includes the list of educational adopters, the newsletters, and the
group resources. You might also track down Robyn Waxman. She's
organizing the Designers Accord Education Summit, and she'll be able to
connect you to a wealth of resources.
Another valuable resource is the on-line journal Design Philosophy
Papers. You'll find it at
http://www.desphilosophy.com/dpp/home.html
Editor Marie Willis is an expert on sustainability education and
Contributing Editor Tony Fry is one of Australia's experts on the
subject. While the journal focuses on sustainability as a main framework
of design philosophy, many of the authors and editors are experts in
sustainable design education.
You might also contact Dr. Cameron Tonkinwise at Parsons The New School
for Design. In addition to contributing to DPP, he has developed several
programs focusing on sustainability.
Of the 1,500 subscribers to PhD-Design, I hope there are others who can
add a few suggestions. I'll send you all the emails you need off-list.
Best regards,
Ken
Ken Friedman, PhD, DSc (hc), FDRS
Professor
Dean
Swinburne Design
Swinburne University of Technology
Melbourne, Australia
Telephone +61 3 9214 6755
www.swinburne.edu.au/design
On Thu, 16 Apr 2009 01:29:02 -0700, gülden malya <[log in to unmask]>
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>Dear All,
>As I have explained in my previous email couple of weeks ago
>I am a Master student from Istanbul/Turkey working
>on the thesis about sustainable design education.
>As a part of my research I am looking for some sources and articles
about
>"History of sustainable design education".
>However I could not find any.
>I wonder if anybody can help with this topic.
>
>Kind regards
>
>Gulden Malya
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