DESIGN SCHOOL: The Future of the Project

该项目将通过诺森比亚大学设计学院、澳大利亚查尔斯·斯图尔特大学、南丹麦大学和伦敦设计博物馆之间的合作，建立一个探索设计学院未来的国际研究网络。通过从全球视角审视设计学院的现状，研究网络将探索设计学习和教学、研究和实践的结构是如何被一些内部、外部和背景因素改变的，以及这些变化对设计学院未来迭代的影响。该网络将探索当代设计学院的性质，并研究在理论和实践中存在的丰富和多样化的设计生产情况，以及当代设计学院生活中盛行的工作室/历史/理论互动的特点，询问设计学院是否正在塑造新型设计师，或者未来的设计师是否将从商业、医疗保健、教育和计算机等目前经常应用设计思维的其他职业中脱颖而出。这个研究网络是在世界各地的政府和市场都在积极重塑大学和设计学院的时候提出的。在一个快速和密集变化的时代，这个网络将培养新的国际关系，塑造未来的设计学院。拟议的研究网络研讨会系列的主要目的是探索当代设计学院的未来，从来自设计教育、文化和行业的高级特邀演讲者那里获得国际视角的信息，提出以下问题：*人类世时代的设计学院如何最好地为这个复杂的世界培养未来的设计师？*设计学院如何在快速和激烈的变化中最大限度地利用这个未来、不确定的世界所带来的潜在机会？*改变了地球之后，设计学院应该如何应对改变我们的星球？研究网络将举办三次研讨会，反映当代设计学院的三个重大转变。第一个主题将聚焦于当前围绕设计学院的问题，包括发展无数的私立设计学校，增加远程教育，以及世界各地政府推行的围绕设计教育的国家政策。第二个研讨会将集中讨论设计学院与文化部门之间日益密切的关系。第三次研讨会将探讨工业和设计学院之间日益密切的关系，这将引发关于未来设计学院政策和私营公司议程的辩论。这个国际网络中的研究团队之间的合作将使该网络能够汇集来自设计学院不断扩大的景观的代表，其中包括越来越多的国际特许经营的公共和私人教育机构，设计博物馆部门(也包括国际特许经营)，来自蓬勃发展的国际设计节巡回演出的代表，来自新兴的、主要是跨学科的研究生设计学院的代表，来自主要在线设计媒体的编辑的代表，以及从事设计教育的有影响力的从业者。由于许多这些影响是学科的传统设计学院模式的外部，但正在塑造设计师的学习，这三个研讨会将产生第一次对设计学院可能的发展轨迹的高级理解。这项研究的价值在于它对设计学院的未来进行了严格的审视。这三个活动的观众将是国际观众，包括学院院长和院长、博物馆馆长、设计教育家、主要设计从业者、艺术节总监和策展人、出版商、设计媒体成员和设计研究生。

This project will establish an international research network exploring the future of the Design School, through a partnership between Northumbria University School of Design, Charles Stuart University, Australia, the University of Southern Denmark, and the Design Museum London. By examining the contemporary situation of the Design School from a global perspective, the research network will explore how the structure of design learning and teaching, research and practice, is being transformed by a number of internal, external, and contextual factors and the implications of these changes for future iterations of the Design School. The network will explore the nature of the contemporary Design School and examine the rich and diverse situations that exist in design production, both in theory and practice, and the character of the studio/history/theory interplays that prevail in contemporary Design School life, asking whether Design Schools are shaping a new type of designer, or if tomorrow's designers will emerge from other professions such as business, health care, education, and computing, where design 'thinking' is now regularly applied. This research network is proposed at a time when governments and markets across the world are actively reshaping the university and hence the Design School. In a time of rapid and intensive change, the network will foster new international relationships to shape the Design School of the future. The key aim of the proposed research network seminar series is to explore the future of the contemporary Design School informed by international perspectives from high level invited speakers from design education, culture and industry by asking:* How can a Design School in the age of the Anthropocene best prepare future designers for this complex world? * How can the Design School maximize the potential opportunities suggested by this future, uncertain world at a time of rapid and intensive change? * Having changed the planet how should the Design School react to the planet changing us?The research network will hold 3 symposiums reflecting 3 significant turns in the contemporary Design School. The first will focus on the current issues surrounding the Design School including the development of countless private Design Schools, increased distance learning, and national policies surrounding design education pursued by government across the world. The second symposium will focus on the increasingly close relationship between the Design School and the Cultural Sector. The third symposium will examine the increasingly intensive relationship between industry and Design Schools that will stimulate debate over future Design School policy and private companies' agendas. The collaboration between the research team in this international network will permit the network to bring together representatives from the expanding landscape of the Design School, which includes growing numbers of public and private educational providers franchising internationally, the design museum sector (also franchising internationally), representatives from the booming international design festival circuit, representatives from the emergent, mostly transdisciplinary postgraduate Design Schools, representatives from the editors of the mostly online design media, and influential practitioners engaged in design education. Since many of these influences are external to the discipline's traditional Design School model, but are shaping the learning of the designer, the 3 symposiums will generate the first advanced understanding of the probable trajectory of the Design School. The value of this research is in its rigorous examination of the future of the Design School. The audience for the 3 events will be international and comprise faculty heads and deans, museum directors, design educators, key design practitioners, festival directors and curators, publishers, members of the design media, and postgraduate students of design.