Designing Design Education, or: The design of future design education geared towards the common good – we are dedicating our own research projects to this topic. The results are published here free of charge.

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Public Value and Design Studies 2024
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What public value do design courses have in Germany? To what extent is the design course aimed at making a significant contribution to strengthening the common good? We examined these questions for the first time in 2022. The second study will be carried out in 2024.

What public value do design courses have in Germany? To what extent is the design course aimed at making a significant contribution to strengthening the common good? We examined these questions for the first time in 2022. The second study will be carried out in 2024.

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Designing Design Education – Impulses for a new curriculum (2023-2025)
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Design studies must change radically. This is the central result of the research we conducted starting in 2016 and published in the White Paper on the Future of Design Teaching in 2021. How exactly can this be achieved? In our follow-up project, we are gathering global insights: pragmatic suggestions for anyone who wants to change their design theory immediately. This project is an open campus in cooperation with The New Collection Munich on the occasion of its 100th birthday in 2025.

Design studies must change radically. This is the central result of the research we conducted starting in 2016 and published in the White Paper on the Future of Design Teaching in 2021. How exactly can this be achieved? In our follow-up project, we are gathering global insights: pragmatic suggestions for anyone who wants to change their design theory immediately. This project is an open campus in cooperation with The New Collection Munich on the occasion of its 100th birthday in 2025.

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Impulse 5: Innovation
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As part of the joint campus of the Neue Sammlung München and the iF Design Foundation, the next event on the future of design teaching will take place from October 15 to 17, 2024. The impulses for a new design curriculum will focus on the topic: innovation.

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Impulse 4: Leadership for Sustainability & Public Value
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Leadership is one of the personal skills that are particularly important as so-called soft skills for successful professional practice. This aspect of personal development plays a crucial role in overcoming the challenges that arise from an orientation towards the common good. That's why this event is dedicated to values-based and sustainability-oriented leadership as well as public value.

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Impulse 3: Artificial Intelligence
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Artificial intelligence was already identified by the design community in the white paper study (2015-2020) as a core competency for future designers. In this event, approaches to teaching this new technology in design education were developed.

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Impulse 2: Personal development and personal growth
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The most important demands for future design studies published in the 2021 White Paper include those that relate to aspects of personality development. The thesis is that professional success in the future will depend on personal qualities and skills that do not count as professional expertise in the narrower sense. This event focuses on resilience, emotional intelligence, analytical thinking and critical judgment in order to integrate these topics into design teaching.

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Impulse 1: Learning and Teaching Sciences
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How do we learn? In recent decades, far-reaching findings have come to light that provide fundamentally new answers to this question. A new scientific area has been established internationally: the learning and teaching sciences. These findings have hardly yet reached design theory. This event is therefore dedicated to four exemplary topics – learning experience, materiality, growth mindset and impact measurement – ​​as impulses for changing design teaching.

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launch event
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In 2025, The New Collection will celebrate its 100th birthday. On this occasion she is cooperating with the iF Design Foundation and looking to the future of design and design education. As part of an open campus, concrete impulses for fundamental change in design studies are collected, applied, reflected on and published. The kick-off event outlines the horizon of this research project together with Michele de Lucchi (AMDL Milan, Università Ca'Foscari Venice) and Gareth Loudon (Royal College of Art, London).

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Design studies in Germany: The course finder
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All design courses at German universities can be researched on this platform: which courses are there, which universities offer them, are they private or state universities and many other questions are answered immediately here. The free offer is aimed specifically at anyone who is interested in studying design and would like up-to-date and independent guidance.

All design courses at German universities can be researched on this platform: which courses are there, which universities offer them, are they private or state universities and many other questions are answered immediately here. The free offer is aimed specifically at anyone who is interested in studying design and would like up-to-date and independent guidance.

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Design studies Germany 2023: The contribution to public value
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What public value do design courses have in Germany? To what extent is the design course aimed at making a significant contribution to strengthening the common good? These questions were examined on our behalf for the first time in 2022 and we published the results in 2023.

What public value do design courses have in Germany? To what extent is the design course aimed at making a significant contribution to strengthening the common good? These questions were examined on our behalf for the first time in 2022 and we published the results in 2023.

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Designing Design Education – A White Paper on the Future of Design Education (2020)
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This publication documents all the research we have conducted with global participation into what the future of design practice looks like and the study required to achieve it. The free publication is aimed at everyone who is looking for information and suggestions for changing design studies.

This publication documents all the research we have conducted with global participation into what the future of design practice looks like and the study required to achieve it. The free publication is aimed at everyone who is looking for information and suggestions for changing design studies.

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Hearings (2019–2020)
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The third research phase of the “Designing Design Education” project consisted of a series of multi-day events in Europe, USA, Asia and Africa. In Gmund, Pasadena, Kyoto and Johannesburg, the invited participants responded to the findings of the 2016 study (“Around the World in 80 Questions”). Building on this, they developed different concepts for studying design that fit into the respective cultural, political and economic contexts.

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Study on the future of design teaching (2015–2016)
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The research project “Designing Design Education” started in 2015 with a simple question: Clearly, the professional practice of design is undergoing significant change. What consequences will this have for design teaching if it does not want to chase these changes but rather actively shape them? The first phase consisted of an inventory of the status of research and publications, the second phase consisted of 100 interviews on site in Europe, Asia and the USA.

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Quo Vadi's design? (2013)
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This free publication documents a multi-day event in which the status quo of design was critically questioned. It brings together four fundamental theses and marks the starting point for examining the future of design and thus design education through the iF Design Foundation.

This free publication documents a multi-day event in which the status quo of design was critically questioned. It brings together four fundamental theses and marks the starting point for examining the future of design and thus design education through the iF Design Foundation.