Hi everyone,
I completely agree with the diagnosis Ken Friedman is establishing about design education (as I karaokeed diapo 62 and onward of its presentation). Although it clearly synthetizes what I consider are the most crucial questions raised by the comparison of Bologna-Australia-New-Zealand and US educational systems, it does not exhaust the issues stemming from a thorough institutional assessment of design schools. What about the threshold of graduate students enrollment, the access to relevant library collections, the existence of a formal and standardized curriculum of seminars, etc.? These institutional aspects of design schools also need to be examined if we really want to acknowledge the value of design education and the level of preparedness of future generations of designers.
But, after looking at this presentation that seems to advocate for some sort of Flexner moment in design, what I do wonder is from where the pressure to reform design education would come today. In my opinion, the Bologna-Australia-New-Zealand system has gained a lot of traction and, I might be wrong on that, but the design schools that adopted this scheme tend to receive quite a lot of attention and an overwhelming share of founding from the private sector. (Is it because they produce more readily employable graduates ?) If the equivalent of a Flexner report was to emerge now about design, I am affraid that it would be backed by the same stakeholders that are already engaged in supporting schools that follow the Bologna system and that what would be at risk and dubbed as an irrelevant standard would be the US educational system.
That's frightening ! So please, no Flexner moment in design !
PG
Ken Friedman a écrit le 08/10/19 à 10:33 :
Dear Colleagues,
Last week, I gave the Chatterjee Global Lecture at the College of Design, Art, Architecture, and Planning of the University of Cincinnati. The title was Design Education Today - Challenges, Opportunities, Failures.
If you’d like to see the PowerPoint deck for the lecture, you will find it at this URL:
https://www.academia.edu/40519668/Friedman._2019._Design_Education_Today_-_Challenges_Opportunities_Failures <https://www.academia.edu/40519668/Friedman._2019._Design_Education_Today_-_Challenges_Opportunities_Failures><https://www.academia.edu/40519668/Friedman._2019._Design_Education_Today_-_Challenges_Opportunities_Failures>
The abstract: Design is a discipline, a field, and a profession. Inherently interdisciplinary, often focused on a future that does not yet exist, the work of design involves solving problems for multiple stakeholders in a complex changing world. Designers also seek to create and to invent. Educating people for the design field today involves the legacy of the past and the challenges of the future. Comparable to medical education at the start of the 1900s or business education in the late 1950s, design education is a practical art and an emerging science that requires the full resources of the modern university at a time when the university itself faces extraordinary demands. This lecture examines questions, proposes possible answers, and considers problems that will not be easy to solve.
Yours,
Ken
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