I am honoured to be the opening presentation at the GloW-DESIGN ReDesignEd Educators’ Forum 2019 on Wed 20th of November from 18:00 at the University of Johannesburg, Bunting Road Campus, FADA Auditorium. If you are interested in attending the opening of this international educators’ forum focused on “What We Don’t (or Can’t) Teach — Bridging the Knowledge Gap” please come on through!
GloW-DESIGN ReDesignEd Educators’ Forums are where: “Select design education and professional leadership from around the world convene for a global conversation and opportunity to collaborate in an environment that is open-minded and non-affiliated. Together the group explores and actively shapes how design education can be creatively rethought, supported and enhanced to move the field of design forward to begin to reposition the design discipline to be more relevant to the 21st century.”
The 2019 theme of “What We Don’t (or Can’t) Teach — Bridging the Knowledge Gap” is a “back-to-basics approach to understanding the foundational building blocks of a designer’s essential knowledge, What We Don’t (or Can’t) Teach addresses the need for a comprehensive learning grounded in the qualitative. While conceptual form-making finds its origins in this same core, the designer’s ability to shape empathetic experience and garner desired outcomes remains elusive in teaching and practice.
The ReDesignEd Forum, an educator-focused component part, exists to systematically re-examine the outputs of design education, giving shape to the most appropriate and progressive pedagogy for today and into the future – an education which deeply understands and optimizes human potential. The ReDesignEd Educators Forum 2019 will explore the underpinnings of the manifold pedagogic requirements that need to be layered in with the customary quantitative factors, thereby seamlessly integrating conceptual, functional and crucial skills development.
A GloW-DESIGN platform, the ReDesignEd its Educators Forum intend to rethink all aspects and applications of design learning, knowledge and practice. This we do to address contemporary challenges and to help shape resultant impact for human betterment and improved civic society.“
For more information on the event and GloW-DESIGN please visit: https://www.globallywedesign.com/2019-educators-forum