Jan Boelen, “Design as Learning”

Date: 

Wednesday, November 7, 2018, 6:30pm to 8:00pm

Location: 

Gund Hall, Piper Auditorium 105, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

Why do design? What is it for? These are forward-looking questions for a creative discipline that seems more slippery to define than ever. In a world of dwindling natural resources, exhausted social and political systems, and an overload of information there are many urgent reasons to reimagine the design discipline, and there is a growing need to look at design education. Learning and unlearning should become part of an on-going educational practice. We need new proposals for how to organize society, how to structure our governments, how to live with, not against, the planet, how to sift fact from fiction, how to relate to each other, and frankly, how to simply survive. This lecture Design as Learning asks: can design and design education provide these critical ideas and strategies?

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