Dear all
I have been following the threads of building the filed and social
responsibility of designers and I would like to combine my thoughts into one
response:
In the educational process of designers they acquire information, as well as
they learn to use design methods or design tools. Designers also develop
their own personal ways of using these methods. However an inevitable part
of design is a personal agenda and intrinsic motivation. When designers are
asked to design they reinterpret the design task over and over in a
reflective process. Within this process they include their personal agenda
together with extrinsic demands.
Usually the client or the end users do not ask the designer to consider
social or environmental implications of the design act. It is the designer
responsibility to include it in his agenda and to convince everybody that it
is important. Therefore the designer can be a leader, an advocate and a
major performer in the creation of a better environment.
Education is not only giving tools to someone but also to equip this
designer with motivation and moral values. As educators we have the
obligation to motivate our students to be responsible designers who act in a
modest way and who question themselves about the environmental and social
consequences of their act.
Sincerely,
Noam Austerlitz
Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning
Technion I.I.T.
Haifa, Israel.
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