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The localization is an area that has not been given much attention by the non western countries. I came across a writing " A case against the modernist regime in design education" by by Jan MICHL of Oslo School of Architecture and Design . ABSTRACT The article argues that the present dominance of the modernist design idiom, and the general aesthetic inferiority of existing non-modernist stylistic alternatives, is a consequence of the fact that design schools have for decades banished non-modernist visual idioms from their curriculum. The author discusses original arguments for the single-style modernist regime of contemporary design schools, and contends that the modernist vision of a single unified style, which prompted the banishment, was rooted in a conservative, backward-looking effort to imitate the aesthetic unity of pre-industrial, feudal epochs. Against the received view of modernism as an expression of modernity, the author argues that modernists were on the contrary geared to suppressing the key novel feature of the modern time: its pluralism in general and its aesthetic diversity in particular. It is further asserted that the design philosophy behind the modernist regime was largely self-serving, aimed at securing the modernists an educational and aesthetic monopoly. The author pleads for transforming the modernist design education into a modern one, where pluralism of aesthetic idioms and positions replaces the current one-style-fits-all approach. http://www.janmichl.com/eng.apartheid.html Barbara Predan had posted about a symposium on international symposium on (alternative) pedagogical practices which also looks for other ways. Design Education: international symposium in Ljubljana Another important exploration is by Walter D. Mignolo who is an Argentine semiotician and professor at Duke University published the book "Local Histories/Global Designs: Coloniality, Subaltern Knowledges, and Border Thinking (Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History)" http://press.princeton.edu/titles/6736.html Jinan, 'DIGITAL MEDIUM IS A TOOL.DIGITALLY MEDIATED KNOWLEDGE DESTROYS THE BEING' http://sadhanavillageschool.org/ https://www.youtube.com/user/sadhanavillagepune https://www.youtube.com/user/jinansvideos www.re-cognition.org www.kumbham.org reimaginingschools.wordpress.com http://designeducationasia.blogspot.com/ http://awakeningaestheticawareness.wordpress.com/ http://awakeningaestheticawareness.blogspot.in/ 09447121544 0487 2386723 On 29 April 2015 at 01:25, Fenn, Terence <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Hi Rudi and Ria, > > Firstly, if you need any additional information regarding our DSD DESIS > Lab or would like to join us for one of our monthly sessions please feel > free to contact either Angus Campbell ([log in to unmask]) or myself ( > [log in to unmask]), we are always happy to talk shop and share ideas. > > Secondly, I believe that your question, generally, is of great importance > to how we, as design educators in Africa, position our teaching and > research practices. In my experience teaching interventions with a strong > HCD/Design Thinking/ Service Design ethos encourages students' to consider > design as a strongly localized and contextual practice during which meaning > is co-constructed with communities. > > While these types of consideration of design have become more commonplace > in practice orientated projects (and subsequent embedded theory), it is my > opinion that these approaches to design are not often supported from a > theoretical perspective, which still tend to fixate on aesthetic or > semiotical readings of design. > > Furthermore, and I speculate that this is what Rudi may be looking for (as > well as the rest of us) there seems to be little effort to highlight the > history or study of design as a particularly African concern and activity > (historical and contemporary). In this regard I am very curious to read > Victor Margolin's new World History of Design reader, which has promised to > include us this time around. > > To conclude- I am happy to be corrected, if anyone has developed > curriculum related to these concerns, and more importantly, I would love to > see its content (particularly with a South African focus), as I believe > that it would be hugely beneficial. > > So please, Rudi- if you find some valuable content, could you please share > it? > > Thanks > > Terence Fenn > > Department of Multimedia, FADA. University of Johannesburg > fennhobbs.com > www.designsocietydevelopment.org > > ________________________________________ > From: PhD-Design - This list is for discussion of PhD studies and related > research in Design [[log in to unmask]] on behalf of Rudi Wynand > De Lange [[log in to unmask]] > Sent: 28 April 2015 12:37 PM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: Africanization of a design curriculum > > Ria > Hi > Thank you. > Rudi > > -----Original Message----- > From: PhD-Design - This list is for discussion of PhD studies and related > research in Design [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Ria > van Zyl > Sent: 28 April 2015 12:12 PM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: Africanization of a design curriculum > > Hallo Rudi > > One way is to look at research and design development work that addresses > local problems. > > Fada (University of Johannesburg's) work done through > http://www.designsocietydevelopment.org/ can be an example where the > design process and thinking is adapted, and then find it's way back to the > curriculum. > > Ria van Zyl > Pretoria - Gauteng > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > PhD-Design mailing list <[log in to unmask]> Discussion of PhD > studies and related research in Design Subscribe or Unsubscribe at > https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/phd-design > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > ________________________________ > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Tshwane University of Technology > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This email is sent and received in terms of the Electronic > Communications Policy of Tshwane University of Technology. > In line with this policy, this email is private, privileged and > confidential. 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