Dear Terry,
Many thanks for your useful reply. I often find something interesting or provocative in your posts that prompt reflection and further thought. After reading through your points, I believe we are talking about similar things – that design education should change – however, I believe we have probably followed our own paths to reach that conclusion. Even though I believe that design education should change, I am still making up my mind on what those changes might be, so it is useful to read your suggestions for how that change might play out.
Your reply leads me to believe that you support the conclusion that the three educative aims of knowledge development, individual development, and socialization will become compatible if design education changes by massively increasing the amount and scope of learning. I do not disagree that the methods you identify to increase compactness of knowledge, parallel processing, abstraction, transdisciplinary, life-long learning, and self-learning could increase the amount and scope of learning in a design programme. These proposals are interesting and I will give them more thought. I am also interested to hear more about how you believe that implementing these methods would make the three aims of education more compatible. For example, how well would the socialisation aim be supported in the kind of education system you propose? Perhaps, your suggestions have more radical implications for design education?
In my work in design education, I often encounter students who desire their educative experience to prepare them to obtain employment in the local design industry. For these students and for the companies that would employ them, the value of design education is to some significant degree its ability to indoctrinate local norms and values in students. In my experience, fewer students invest in design education to obtain abstract truths about design knowledge for its own sake. Doctoral education might be a slightly different story?
Best,
Luke
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Luke Feast, Ph.D. | Industrial Design | Senior Lecturer | Faculty of Design and Creative Technologies | Auckland University of Technology | New Zealand | Email [log in to unmask] | +64 9 921 9999 ext 6017
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