Dear Liliana,
Thank you for raising this topic. I believe it is the single most important issue facing design education today but it seems to be a taboo subject. I have written about this many times so won't repeat myself here. I had been hoping to hear views from other contributors to this forum.
At the recent Research Through Design conference here in Cambridge, a panel of four senior figures from design/ design education gathered to respond to questions. Needless to say, this topic came up and led to lively debate. Depressingly however, the panel insisted at the start of the session that there should be no tweeting or recording of the discussion. It would seem clear then that academic career progression is seen as incompatible with open debate about this 'elephant in the room'. Professor Sir Christopher Frayling offered some views in a filmed interview at the conference and a few weeks later gave the Henry Sidgwick Memorial Lecture across town at Newnham College- 'The Head, the Heart and the Hand: The surprising story of English design education'.
I think I have conformed to your Rule 1) but not Rule 2)
Best regards,
Martin
Professor Martin Salisbury
Course Leader, MA Children's Book Illustration
Director, The Centre for Children's Book Studies
Cambridge School of Art
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Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 2015 12:55 AM
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Subject: Fresh approach + Professional vs Research Experience
Dear list,
In a positive spirit, and as there are so many (and sometimes irreconcilable) opinions on the way this list should operate, we would like to propose a form of self-moderation to foster ownership, and to create a more dynamic and participative list dynamic.
Each individual that initiates a tread, will set its rules at the beginning of it. For example, if you believe that long dense answers full of quotations are useful, then you set a rule to allow that kind of posts. Hopefully this will filter in and out people according to their research interests and discussion styles, and everybody will be happy.
So as to demonstrate this, here is the first post in this style to see if it works:
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Title of tread:
Professional vs Research Experience
Tread rules:
1) Please avoid long posts (Up to 300 words)
2) Well-argued personal opinions are welcomed (Not quoting literature on the matter is perfectly ok)
It seems to us that there was a time (not too long ago really) in which your professional experience as a designer (as well as your teaching experience) was the most important factor to get a job as a design lecturer (at least in the UK in product design courses). Now it seems that it is your research background (for example holding a PhD) what mainly counts to aspire to a lecturing position.
If this is the case, how it will affect the working prospects of those design graduates trained by researchers?
What is the value of research experience against professional experience in the context of teaching undergraduate and MA design students?
Discuss,
Liliana & Carlos
Liliana Rodriguez
Doctoral Researcher @ Loughborough University
www.lulugaia.wordpress.com/
www.lboro.academia.edu/LilianaRodriguez
Carlos Peralta Ph.D (Cantab)
Senior Lecture in Design
College of Arts & Humanities
University of Brighton
http://arts.brighton.ac.uk/staff/carlos-peralta
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