Designing Design Education – Impulses for a new curriculum (2023-2025)

DESIGNING DESIGN EDUCATION
THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS AND PRACTICAL SUGGESTIONS FOR DESIGN EDUCATION

To further develop design education, this resource collection contains contributions from 26 leading experts worldwide, as well as 75 practically applicable ideas and activities developed collaboratively by design educators in workshops. The content and suggestions aim to ensure that change is truly successful in everyday university life. They encourage educators to redesign their own teaching in small steps—and are available in various formats:

Videos of all the keynote speeches on the six topics
Learning science
Personal Growth
Leadership
KI
innovation
Creativity

Free PDFs of the book publications
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Impressions from the workshop events: How the content was created

All content was created as part of the Open Campus project entitled “Designing Design Education: Impulse for a New Curriculum”, a joint workshop series between the iF Design Foundation and Die Neue Sammlung between 2022 and 2025. Experts from the relevant fields, as well as a large number of design teachers from German and European design universities, participated and developed the content.

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Impulse 6: Creativity
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Creativity is naturally part of design – yet it's worth taking a closer look at this central concept. As...

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Impulse 5: Innovation
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What drives real change? The fifth impulse of the project series addresses the multifaceted concept of 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...

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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...

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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...

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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 emerged that provide fundamentally new answers to these...

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launch event
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In 2025, The New Collection will celebrate its 100th birthday. For this occasion she is collaborating...