I can only speak for myself but I know that the three years I spent in
the visual communications program at the Industrial Design Center at
Mumbai (two as a student and one as an instructor) as being the most
crucial three years of my professional career. I came into design from
an undergraduate degree in engineering and left design to get my
doctorate in education. But not a day goes by where my design experience
does not come into play - be it in my teaching (both what and how I
teach) or my research, in my program design work (I direct our Master's
program in educational technology) or what I do for fun (play with
typography and media).
I pilfer ideas from the design literature and bring it to bear on my
research and scholarship on educational psychology and technology. And
that has led to a reasonably productive and successful academic career.
I often joke that my career is based mainly on the fact that most of my
colleagues in education do NOT read outside the education
literature—which makes my bringing in of ideas from other fields
(usually design) appear far more creative than it really is.
That is the reason I am on this list - not because I am "certified" in
any way to practice design but rather because design provides me an
intellectual toolkit (or a set of lenses, choose your metaphor) for
looking at the world that I find incredibly productive. I see myself as
a designer - a designer of learning environments, of curricula, of
research... The conversations on this list provide me a rich alternative
stream of ideas that I feel I can dip into (borrow from) and repurpose
for my own purposes -- which in itself, interestingly enough, is a
process of (re)design.
Gunnar's and Teena's comment make me think that there may more people
like me out there... maybe there IS a phd topic here worth following up.
If it is a qualitative study, sign me up for the first interview :-)
thanks
~ punya
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Punya Mishra
Web: http://punyamishra.com
Blog: http://punya.educ.msu.edu/blog/
On 8/22/13 9:26 PM, Teena Clerke wrote:
> Hi Gunnar,
>
> <what we do for students who don't become designers is the important test of design education>
>
> yes I agree that they don't walk away with nothing. I increasingly come across graduates from other disciplines doing second, or postgraduate, degrees in design – this inter-disciplinary education in multiple 'thinkings' (not just design thinking) might be something to investigate in order to gain some insight and understanding of the benefits such 'cross-pollination' might produce.
>
> Perhaps this is a phd topic for someone (else!)?
> cheers, teena
>
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