- Title
- What Do We Care About?: Why Learning About Design is Learning About Ourselves
- Creator
- Roxburgh, Mark
- Relation
- Design School: After Boundaries and Disciplines p. 59-67
- Relation
- https://vernonpress.com/book/653
- Publisher
- Vernon Press
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2019
- Description
- In being asked to write about the future of the project known as the design school it strikes me as implicit that I should articulate a vision. I’ve long been suspicious of the notion of ‘the vision thing’, as George W. Bush so eloquently put it, generally regarding it as the domain of the deluded, the insane, autocrats, the drug addled and geniuses. I suspect I see it as such because I am just a bit jealous for I lack the attributes of being visionary. Setting that sense of personal failing aside I mention the idea of vision to make it clear that I am not going to offer one on the future of design education in this polemical opinion piece. There has been much written and said over the past century or so about what a design education should or must entail, two modal verbs I will return to in a moment, and I don’t think the world needs another proclamation on this topic. Notwithstanding that, an interrogation of the circumstances our species finds itself in, indeed has designed for itself, and the role design education might play in that context is warranted. Those circumstances and that context of course being the design of the increasingly artificial world we inhabit and now recognise in geological terms as the Anthropocene.
- Subject
- design; design school; design education; learning
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1451509
- Identifier
- uon:44211
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781622735860
- Language
- eng
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