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 we will develop approaches to teaching this new technology in design education.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
What design courses are there in Germany? Where can design be studied? How do the courses differ? In this series of studies, we continually examine the range of design studies available in Germany. The results are published every two years. In this way, we promote transparency and follow the development of design studies.
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).
