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Designtrain Congress: Designing Design EducationIt seems that the public view on the role of architecture is more and more affecting the approach and the design education of students of environmental, architectural and interior design.
Motivation, engagement and knowledge of younger students seem to experience a deep reconfiguration phase.
The first year education process can be considered as the start of a training process and consequentially a confrontation of the students in design studios.
The matter finds a strategic evaluation and re-thinking moment in the first year education process and it might be discussed starting from that very harsh confrontation that take place in design studios.
How can architectural education approach in a positive way the energy for better and various human urban models and designs to get more attraction for skilled and motivated students?
Design might be considered as an instrument and a medium of expression, a kind of international language; or as a non-neutral actor that internationally tries to equalize taste, needs, as the modern building structures disregards national, regional and local culture and behaviour.
The awareness of such facts is indeed very important in teaching and learning, both for academicians and students, not only in universities but also in high schools and secondary schools.
The congress will accentuate this global effect and also the protection of the individual characters of design education and practice.
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February 20, 2008 | Viewed 37,200 time(s)
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