Visually-oriented design programs should be left to do what they do well. Design should move out of art schools and into its own professional schools, alongside schools of business, law, and medicine.
Drawing and form-giving are not the essence of design. Seeing patterns, making connections, and understanding relationships are.
Modeling, mapping, and visualizing information should replace figure drawing. Systems theory and process management should replace 2D and 3D foundation courses. Social sciences and communications theory must be part of design curricula (e.g., ethnography, cognitive psychology, economics, rhetoric, semiotics).
Instruction should shift from an emphasis on making to a balance of making, observing, and reflecting.
The case-study teaching method works well in law, business, and medicine. We need to write and teach design cases. We need to integrate design cases and other research into studios."
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