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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
