A request to:
Stephen Allard,
João Ferreira,
Katherine Hepworth,
Stuart Medley,
Carlos Pires,
Lubomir Popov,
Keith Russell,
Martin Salisbury,
Cameron Tonkinwise
Dear All,
Sitting in Shanghai on a sunny Saturday morning, I have been thinking about Terry Love’s three questions. I have read through this current thread several times this week, reading all your notes and answers — and linked material — carefully.
While I believe Terry’s position to be trivial and ill-informed, these questions are not trivial. The answers to these questions are quite significant. Together with pendant questions to which they give rise, these questions get to several fundamental issues in design education.
To some degree, these three questions diverge from the issue of doctoral education, but they remain relevant in the sense that the undergraduate curriculum provides the platform for students who later go on to the PhD.
I have asked Terry twice now to answer his own questions. He did not answer the first time. My guess is that he will refrain from a response, or that he will post an irrelevant reply.
I am requesting that the nine of you offer your thoughts. If you’ve grown tired of the thread, I can understand. I nevertheless hope that you will give these questions a few minutes of your time. I suspect the answers will shed real light on some of the topics that have been developed here.
1) How would design education look if you removed all aspects of history from all the subjects in which it has any role?
2) Would design education be better or worse for it in terms of producing innovative useful designs?
3) What would a subject of Design Studies look like?
For that matter, I’d be curious to know what other list members think. I’ll welcome answer these three questions.
Yours,
Ken
Ken Friedman, PhD, DSc (hc), FDRS | Chair Professor of Design Innovation Studies | College of Design and Innovation | Tongji University | Shanghai, China ||| University Distinguished Professor | Centre for Design Innovation | Swinburne University of Technology | Melbourne, Australia
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