If Joćo feels like a poorly rehearsed cover band, following the Rolling Stones, I think perhaps I am sweeping the stage after everyone has left.
Regarding Ken's three questions, I can only endorse the comments of the others and briefly add in haste:
1) How would design education look if you removed all aspects of history
from all the subjects in which it has any role?
Like an OND or HND vocational course. Nothing wrong with those per se but not the same thing as a university education.
2) Would design education be better or worse for it in terms of producing
innovative useful designs?
Far worse. 'Innovative' and 'useful' may not be the be all and end all in my own area. 'Literate' and 'meaningful' are among the qualities that we might strive for and which would be enhanced by a knowledge of subject history.
3) What would a subject of Design Studies look like?
I also cannot stretch to this one at the moment- sorry!
Best wishes on the run,
Martin
Professor Martin Salisbury
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Director, The Centre for Children's Book Studies
Cambridge School of Art
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