I've been scanning some of the discussions, and have to say it's all very interesting from an entirely personal point of view - after over twenty years as a graphic design practitioner and part time lecturer I have just submitted my PhD on a graphic design related subject - and I'm sincerely wondering whether I now tick all the boxes, or have severely restricted my chances of entering employment at a good university!
I shall continue to observe the debate!
Sue Perks
On 10 Oct 2011, at 08:48, Löwgren Jonas wrote:
> To return to Mark's original post, there is another aspect that hasn't seem to come up in the responses.
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> Very practically: If you want to set up a new design school, I guess you would hire according to your strategic positioning of that school.
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> If it were to be based in academia (at least in Europe), you would be forced to work towards academic excellence in the long term if you wanted any hope of financial survival. That would imply having to staff your new school with enough colleagues proficient in academic research to start being productive and building a research environment from day 1.
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> Moreover, those colleagues would have to be experienced enough with design practice to be able to work with the outstanding practitioners that you would also have to hire. This in order to (1) build a strong integration between teaching and research off the bat, and (2) develop forms of design research and practice-based research while you had the opportunity to do so without entrenchment.
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> Best,
> Jonas Löwgren
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