Designing Design Education. An articulated programme of collective open design activities

摘要

Design Education is changing. Setting out from the awareness that “theudprofile of design professions need not – and should not – remain what it is today”ud(Findeli, 2001, p.17) and from insight suggesting that the “experimental approachudwill become the “normal” approach in our future” (Manzini, 2015, p.54), theudauthors worked on an articulated programme of collective open design activitiesudreflecting these changes. The activities focus on concrete experimentation on theudparadigm of distributed production, which modifies the articulation of known rolesudand the traditional design education approaches. Therefore, the initiative aims atudinvolving important international design schools in a concrete design exploration ofudthis key issue for society and the design discipline itself. Manzini (2015) urged toud“look at the whole of society as a huge laboratory of sociotechnicaludexperimentation”: this practice is a remarkable example which may be used as audmodel in the future on a larger scale.