Dear Don, Michael, list
I've read and reread the essay now. I really like the idea that opening up for pluralism is a key; that marks to me an area that is maturing. Multiplicities, rather than reductions. Complexities, rather than singularities. Curiosity, rather than exclusion. Respectfulness, rather than demarcation.
Being at a university with no design "school", but design education and design research distributed in several departments and schools, a university that pioneered cross-disciplinary research in Sweden, we have sought pluralism as the foundation for the field of design within the university. Not always easy, but most often rewarding.
I also like the focus on building capabilities, as designers, and as learners. Not only for the first job, but for the second and maybe even the third career move.
However, there is an issue that I believe would be worth figuring out how to get on board, related to systemic perspectives and reflexivity. Maybe the friction lingers in the text, or my reading, because of the 1959-state you position design education in, or because of the SIGCHI curricula analogy. So, apologies if this is in there, and it is my reading that obscures it.
Let’s give it a spin:
There seems to be an assumption that design(ers) comes in from the outside; is added to whatever is going on. This is a troublesome assumption, because 1) design is already there, done in other ways by other professions and roles (not HCD necessarily, and not always well done, but still. In one extreme think Ezio Manzini's work), 2) design is part of the problem and the solution, and designers are part of the system they are contributing to changing (that is, designing happens _in_ the system, not only "for". Josina Vink's work is one interesting aspect to that).
Best regards
Stefan Holmlid, PhD
Professor in Design, especially services
[Linköping University]
Department of Computer and Information Science
581 83 Linköping
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Ämne: An essay (and proposal) for Curricula in Design
With this post, I am no doubt subjecting both myself and the readers of this list to a barrage of emails, but serious discussion is encouraged -- and needed -- if the proposal in the manuscript is to succeed.
It is a serious attempt to change Design Education, one that will take years to complete and require collaboration with hundreds of designers from across the world, major design programs, and accreditation agencies.
The article does NOT propose a curriculum. It proposes a process for getting a large, representative set of designers and design programs to agree upon a framework and platform. We propose to develop a platform that allows each school to develop its own set of courses and experiences that relate to its own strengths, objectives, and student body. This allows for traditional craft-based education as well as new forms that might not include many of the traditional skills. All, however, will have a similar overarching structure because we are all designers, and even though design takes on many forms and addresses very different kinds of problems, there is a common underlying framework, else we wouldn't call ourselves by the same term: designer.
See the attached manuscript written by my colleague Michael Meyer and me.
It will be published in the March 2020 journal *She Ji *as part of a special issue on Design Education, edited by Noël Guillermina.
And as I said, serious discussion is encouraged.
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Why recycling is so complex: A two-part article.
https://www.fastcompany.com/90452707/im-an-expert-on-complex-design-systems-even-i-cant-figure-out-recycling
https://www.fastcompany.com/90463116/waste-is-an-enormous-problem-but-recycling-is-the-wrong-solution?partner=feedburner
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