Dear List Members,
A primary question came in my mind while reading this great research
based article ”The World's 25 Best Design Schools” at
(http://www.businessinsider.com/the-worlds-25-best-design-schools-2012-11?op=1)-
which is focused over institutions, geographically located in European
and USA only.
If I am not wrong, the term-“World” includes all five major continents
of our earth. So, Asia, Australia, South America, Africa like other
great continents are still-unexplored by the writer. I am wishing him
to suggest,- please don’t ignore these zones. These are also equally
important for the existence of Design with regional equality.
There are several Design Schools with their strong presence in these
continents, like-
1. Asia: Indian Institute of Crafts and Design, India; National
Institute of Design, India; Indian Institute of Technology, India;
Pakistan Institute of Fashion and Design, Pakistan; and School of
Design & Environment of NUS, Singapore.
2. Australia: Australian Academy of Design; Faculty of Design of
Swinburne University of Technology; The Australian Institute of
Creative Design and Whitehouse Institute of Design, Australia.
3. Latin America: Instituto Profesional DuocUC de la Pontificia
Universidad Catolica de Chile, Chile; Universidad de los Andes,
Colombia; Universidad El Bosque, Colombia and Universidad Jorge Tadeo
Lozano, Colombia.
4. Africa: Cape Peninsula University of Technology, South Africa and
University of Botswana, Botswana.
What is the opinion of yours...?
On 11/27/12, Ken Friedman <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hi, Karen,
>
> If I understand this correctly, you seem to be offended because you believe
> that some of the jokes posted to the list were aimed at you personally or at
> Singapore as a nation. This is not so.
>
> Rob poked fun at the method used to compile the rankings. He suggested that
> the method used to compile this ranking was so unreliable that one might
> just as well have bribed the journalists or bought them coffee to influence
> their opinions. No one suggested that you would do such a thing. This was
> about the rankings, not about you.
>
> Chris responded by pointing out that the rankings are even more foolish than
> this. They don’t seem to recognize that they have ranked the same school
> twice under slightly different names. Chris’s joke responded to Rob’s
> comments on the methodological inadequacies of the rankings. She said
> nothing about you or Singapore, either.
>
> None of these comments slight the Republic of Singapore as a nation.
> Singapore has achieved economic miracles linked with one of the world’s best
> education systems. Singapore’s design network is second to none. The use of
> design in Singaporean business and industry is widely respected among those
> who follow these issues.
>
> The rankings cover schools, not nations. The list is narrow and parochial.
> The method was inadequate for getting information about the world’s best
> design schools. Rather than using a broad global survey or an expert panel,
> the magazine surveyed a self-selected list of readers from one nation. The
> resulting list covers the US schools where self-selected respondents
> graduated rather than covering all US design schools. With respect to
> ranking the world’s best design schools, therefore, the notions of sample
> size and statistical significance is silly. That’s what Rob and Chris were
> talking about.
>
> After your reply, below, I reviewed the entire thread again. No one insulted
> you or Singapore. The list is about schools, not nations. And no one
> suggested that you would ever bribe a journalist. (And a cup of coffee would
> not be much of a bribe.)
>
> Singapore has a strong reputation in education, industry, manufacturing, and
> design. No onewould bribe a journalist to write what nearly everyone already
> knows. The entire world recognizes what the Republic of Singapore has
> achieved.
>
> Any list of well-educated people such as you find here will include many who
> respect and admire Singapore. I am one of them, and I’d guess the same of
> Chris and Rob. Rather than misinterpreting a modest joke, it would have been
> helpful if you had simply asked them what they meant. My guess is that
> they’d have been happy to explain it – and that there was no intention of
> insulting you or Singapore.
>
> Yours,
>
> Ken
>
> Professor Ken Friedman, PhD, DSc (hc), FDRS | University Distinguished
> Professor | Swinburne University of Technology | Melbourne, Australia |
> [log in to unmask] | Phone +61 3 9214 6102 |
> http://www.swinburne.edu.au/design
>
>
> —snip—
>
> I personally have little regard to anyone who is distinguished or not, if I
> genuinely feel offended. I simply make my point through sharp and clear. I
> was and am taking this joke as serious. Not the ranking, as I have written
> earlier that I would *laugh* at it. The ranking was the laughable part, not
> the remarks thereafter.
>
> So who is the number 5, if I buy the journalists coffee? That was the the
> thought. Then came someone’s else’s remark they were at number 19 and 25.
> Not very nice, isn’t it?
>
> For the flat response, I don’t buy anyone coffee for anything. I believe in
> only one thing: if you buy off someone for a deal, chances are you will not
> be respected. I can be small and tiny but I will never buy coffee, lunch or
> expensive dinner to get where I want to be or where my tiny country wants to
> be. To me, buying coffee to be placed at number 5 (after the list of 4
> countries that I have stated) is insult to the core. And I must speak up.
>
> This is no small joke as it implies my country needs to buy coffee to be
> placed after the four countries in the best design countries in the world.
>
> —snip—
>
>
>
>
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Regards,
संतोष झा | Santosh Jha
Senior Designer,
Department of Leather Goods & Accessory Design
Footwear Design & Development Institute
(Ministry of Commerce & Industries, Government of India)
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