Events

Jorge Frascara will discuss his 2007 journal article titled Hiding Lack of Knowledge: Bad Words in Design Education published in the Design Issues: Volume 23, Number 4.  In the article  Jorge explored relationship between academic practices of “design research” and training future designers. He has suggested that “master-apprentice” model is limiting how academics conceptualise design education and subsequently what sort of designers are 'produced' by the Higher Education institutions.

Professor Ingvild Digranes in her talk titled Outsourcing Design Education to External Creativity Programs – a Non-sustainable Solution will explore how outsourcing of Art and Design education might erode national repertoire of values. She will use The Cultural Rucksack in Norway to illustrate this proposition.

Engage with Catalina Cortés | Tuesday 4 May 2021 | Design Literacy International Network | Catalina Cortés will discuss a co-authored research article titled Early Childhood Teachers Making Multiliterate Learning Environments: The Emergence of a Spatial Design Thinking Process published in the 2020 June's Thinking Skills and Creativity Journal. doi:10.1016/j.tsc.2020.100655 

María del Pilar Correa and María de los Ángeles Juricic will discuss their journal article titled Addressing Diversity in Universal Design Literacy: A Sociocultural and Neuroscientific Perspective published in the special issue of  Revista Chilena de Diseño, RChD: creación y pensamiento special issue Vol. 5 Núm. 8 (2020) on the theme of Design Literacy for All. The event is free of charge, however, the places are limited.

Ingvill Gjerdrum Maus will explore how to internationalise educational practice and the students’ expressed experienced learning when they reflected on design for sustainability principles and practices in the craft-based design products they made. The online event is free, however, the places are limited.