Design and design methods more and more play a central role when it comes to solving social and economic problems. The expert meetings ›Designing Design Education‹ question in how far this affects the contemporary education of design.

Experts from different fields exchange their experiences and ideas and discuss amongst others on how a sustainable and more humanitarian approach to design can be taught, how designers can be prepared for a future of changing economic models, about a fruitful relation between design and other disciplines in education and about advantages and challenges of having design courses in an art school.

These and other topics will be dealt with in eight expert meetings. Participants are invited to join the discussion and propose their own tickets.

If you are interested in taking part in the expert meetings, please contact us via education@dmy-berlin.com.

Designing Design Education is jointly organzied by DMY and the Netherlands Embassy in cooperation with Lucas Verweij.

Part 1 (10.00 – 11.00) Expert meeting round 1
Topics:
1.New professional challenges: How do I embed social & open design in the curriculum? Host: Ronen Kadushin (Ronen Kadushin, teaching Open Design at different schools)
2. What is artistic and/or design research? Host: Louise Schouwenberg (Dean of the Master programme Contextual Design at the Design Academy Eindhoven)
3. The Travelling Academy: How can the world outside school be involved in the curriculum? Can a department be temporarily moved to elsewhere? Host: Bas van Beek (Head of DesignLAB, Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam)
4. Case study: Export design education to China / Eastern Europe (Prof. Egon Chemaitis, University of the Arts, Berlin)

Part 2 (11.00 – 12.00) Expert meeting round 2
Topics:
5. How can we prepare designers for a future of changing economic models? Host: Sophie Lovell (freelance writer, editor and consultant in design)
6. What is the best structure for a design school to develop and embed a researching atmosphere? Host: Prof. Dr. Dörte Schultze-Seehof (Design Akademie Berlin, Hochschule für Kommunikation und Design)
7. What are the advantages and challenges of having design courses or design departments in an art school (instead of an independent design school or at a technical school)? Host: Prof. Carola Zwick (Kunsthochschule Weissensee, Berlin)
8. What can be a fruitful relation between other disciplines (architecture, fashion, art) and design in education? Host: Lucas Verweij (former dean of a Master study in Architecture & Urban Design and Guest Professor for Product Design)