Coming back to design schools, the issue of « academic knowledge » vs « professional practice » is different and more complex. Should design schools put the emphasis on creation or professional training? If it is indeed professional training, and, as a result, the …
Month: August 2009
« Academic Ranking of World Universities » versus « Professional Ranking of World Universities »
The Shanghai ranking system (the Academic Ranking of World Universities – http://www.arwu.org), which evaluates the main universities worldwide, is often criticized for attaching too much importance to academic criteria , research and publications. This ranking system, which takes no, or …

Designer’s professionalisation, designer career
” Schools of design train desin students to be creative, to create for themselves an ideal philosophy and to apply different methodologies of design development but they do not train them in career advancement” Jacky Moulin – SEB
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