The Design Moment
At a time when an entire country – France, and perhaps an entire continent – Europe, is asking itself questions about its identity and future in an open and unstable world, it seems important to take a …
Design schools
Design: All-in-one and One-for-all
AEF’s upcoming colloquium, “Arts, Design, Fashion: The New Frontier of Higher Education”*, has triggered discussion over the potential for transversality between Design schools and universities especially as creative disciplines in France have not traditionally been academic ones.
Design has never …
The two developments which are going to shake up higher education
Transversality and the transformation of relations between teacher and student are going to overturn established hierarchies and break down the boundaries in higher education.
Gone will be the days of chapels, the pre-eminence of “hard” sciences over “soft”. Gone the …
Design Education and Globalisation : the New Deal (Part I)
Design Schools are experiencing and will continue to experience huge upheavals. They are benefiting from real opportunities in development proportionate to the large cultural and socio-economic stakes the world is faced with today. They take a predominant place in the …
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