There is an interesting article over on the Fast Company site about the new head of the Rhode Island School of design that you might find interesting. I found it inspiring - education and design (design education) are areas near and dear to my heart, having taught at Massey University's Design School in Auckland for three years. John Maeda arrived at the RISD from MIT. He is described as a Rennaissance man, based on his accomplishments in both technology and the arts. Factions at the school distributed the meme that Maeda would eliminate tradtional craft based foundation programmes that emphasise skills like drawing and replace them with computer based activities. Not so, as it happened. Maeda used blogging in addition to usual channels to give an unfiltered, non-chinese whisper account of his true intentions. What is interesting in the article is the criticism of the fashionable 'design led thinking' notion. While the corporate world is obsessed with the idea of design thi...
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