Design Monat Graz – Better Future

Angus Donald CampbellEducation, Sustainability

I am honoured to have been invited to sit on the Designing for People panel for the Redesign the Future Symposium as part of Design Monat [Month] Graz 2021 in Austria from 16:00 on the 11th of May 2021. I will be presenting an 8-minute lecture and then participate in a panel discussion on the topic with Emanuel Barbosa, Mariana Goncálex de la Rosa and Sigrid Bürstmayr. Emanuel is a designer, design educator and curator at ESAD—Arte Matosinhos Porto, Porto Design Biennale; Mariana is Coordinator of the Bachelor’s Degree in Industrial Design, Universidad Iberoamericana Puebla; and Sigrid, who invited me to join the panel, is a Lecturer at FH|JOANNEUM idk_ Institut Design & Kommunikation. “Design Monat [Month] Graz bundles and condenses the energy of the local creative industries within one month, makes it visible to the outside world and thus makes a central contribution to anchoring the creative industries in … Read More

Ethics for Design Researchers Lecture – Inscape Education Group

Angus Donald CampbellEducation, Research

On Thursday the 15th of March 2021, I have been invited to present a lecture on ethics for design researchers at the Inscape Education Group who specialise in the creative and design industries, built environment, business and communication, and digital technology-driven education. The lecture is aimed at senior-level students in the BA Hons and Advanced Diploma design programmes. The lecture will be online and broken into three 20-minute presentations, followed by Q&A sessions. The link to the lecture on Teams will be added here soon.

Studia Generalia Lecture & Workshop – Finnish Design Academy

Angus Donald CampbellDevelopment, Education, Industrial Design, Research, Social Innovation, Sustainability

I am honoured to have been invited to present a Studia Generalia lecture and a workshop for the Finnish Design Academy mid-November 2020! The Finnish Design Academy is a collaborative network of Finnish university-level design schools, which aims to develop design education to better answer the changing needs of working life. It is a collaboration between nine Finnish universities and I was invited by Sami Kauppinen from the Laurea University of Applied Sciences Masters Degree Programme in Service Innovation and Design to present the lecture and workshop through my prior engagement in an Erasmus+ project linked to the University of Johannesburg. The details of the lecture are as follows: Date: 17 November 2020 Time: 15.00 – 16.00 (EEST) Title: Designing with the Underserved: An Exploration of the Complexities of Design in South Africa from the perspective of the SDGs With reference to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), this Studia Generalia … Read More

iF Design Foundation 4th Conference – The Future of Design Education

Angus Donald CampbellConferences, Education, Industrial Design

Job profiles of designers around the globe are changing with dramatic speed and educational institutions have to keep track with these changes. How should design education be structured in a way that design graduates can work effectively in the future? To what extent is the current training still applicable – or does it need to go in a completely new direction? If a new type of design college was founded tomorrow, which could fully draw on new sources of inspiration without being restricted by any consideration for old structures – what content and methods would be taught there? I am honoured to have been invited as one of 24 selected experts from Africa and India by the iF Design Foundation to a two-day conference to discuss some of these questions and future of design education. A catalogue of 80 widely diverse questions based on an international study by the iF … Read More