Tag: Victor Papanek

Education for designers (like nearly all education) is based on learning skills, nourishing talents, understanding the concepts and theories that inform the field, and, finally, acquiring a philosophy. It is unfortunate that our design schools proceed from the wrong assumptions. the skills we teach are too often related to the processes and working methods of and Age that has ended. The philosophy is an equal mixture of self-indulgent and expressive bohemian individualism and materialism both profit oriented and brutal. The method of teaching and transmitting this biased information is more than half a century out of date. […] The main…