“Where are today’s design schools and design researchers? In my experience, most design teaching is feeding the machine – sticking to the outdated playbook of modernism, training students in skills for industry now rather than preparing them to contribute thoughtfully to a less materialistic future. With some notable exceptions, there are relatively few schools where sustainable design is core to the curriculum; if included at all, sustainability is merely an afterthought, bolted onto the side of a pre-existing set of courses that serve to maintain the status quo.

And where is design research? The phrase ‘rearranging the deck chairs’ comes to mind. Having served for many years on the editorial boards of The Design Journal and similar academic publications, I have a reasonable grasp of the kinds of design research being done internationally.”

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14606925.2022.2154962

tandfonline.com

Design is … Lost

Published in The Design Journal: An International Journal for All Aspects of Design (Ahead of Print, 2023)