Universities will cease to exist when learning has degenerated into what we now call research and when their teaching has become mere instruction.
In order to empower students we must make them be aware of the networks that are available to them, whether they local, national or global, and give them that confidence to try things and to know that it’s okay for something not to work and how to get back from that.
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.
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.
If we wish for our students to swim in the ocean, we cannot be teaching them in a tiny swimming pool.
…as time went by all these questions started to come up based on my observations of what was really happening:
The New Art School 