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One of the big issues we always have now in design courses is have you built in enough risk into the projects? have you built in the fact that if a project fails, there is a very valid learning experience within that failure? have you built that in? Or is it the case that you don’t get the credits, the weighting, etc, etc.
“Always focus on your strengths. And don’t try too much to be the thing that they want you to be, just enough to stop you getting fired.”
The culmination of a good higher education and design education is the recognition of we you do as being valuable. We see the opposite in primary and secondary schools. At some point in the process we see drawing with coloured pencils as wrong and drawing with blue ink or black ink and writing on paper as correct. And we apply this, we don’t even say that explicitly and that is the worst bit.
I design and do art and everything from the body, from how I feel, not from using my head. If I use my head I get awfully confused, because I’m so dyslexic, once I sort of try to use the brain, I know I’ve lost it. The energy you put into the work comes back. The energy comes from the body and the heart not the head.
The Alicante Design Education Forum 2019 was designed and organised by designer/lecturer Lefteris Heretakis and co-organised by Glug events London and EASDA, the School of Art and Design Of Design of Alicante, an educational centre belonging to the Instituto Superior de Enseñanzas Artísticas (ISEACV) that offers qualified official education preparing trained professionals to face the challenges demanded by our society in the various fields of design and plastic arts and that academically offers the Higher Design degrees and the Professional Teachings of Art and Design.
The mission of the ADEF19 forum was to bring together industry, lecturers and students to discover new ways of working together, forging curriculum that is more appropriate for this time. ADEF19 is a practitioner’s conference that seeks solutions that are immediately applicable for the betterment of Art and Design Education as a whole.
A Prologue with Lefteris Emmanuel Heretakis. Lefteris talks about his design education in London. We compare his experiences on the state of design education with design education in the US, methodology, theory, pedagogy, and research in design education
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If we wish for our students to swim in the ocean, we cannot be teaching them in a tiny swimming pool.
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