Friends,
Please let me make that last note quite precise: This is not about whether
most people are good design teachers, but whether most are BOTH strong
design practitioners AND strong researchers. But that said, even based on the
experience of most folks on this list, relatively few good design teachers
can make a go of top-level professional practice.
In visiting many art and design schools, I found very few people who could
really make a mark as practicing professionals in either design or art. In a
young research field such as ours, there are very few truly strong researchers.
It's hard to see how there could be more people who are strong at BOTH
research AND professional practice than the number of people who are
strong at one OR the other.
Again, the purpose of doctoral education is to build stronger university-based
design schools for a stronger field.
Ken
Professor Ken Friedman, PhD, DSc (hc), FDRS | University Distinguished Professor | Dean, Faculty of Design | Swinburne University of Technology | Melbourne, Australia | [log in to unmask] | Ph: +61 3 9214 6078 | Faculty www.swinburne.edu.au/design
Ken Friedman wrote:
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On this issue, I have to agree with Frankie. We want to improve our field ...
that is what doctoral education is about. To say that the majority is already
very good ... Well, that may be the case at Lake Wobegone University, but
not at most of the several hundred I've studied.
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