Design thinking is an innate trait in all humans, is it not?
Imagine, before the 20th century, design wasn’t considered a profession. Does that mean that it didn’t exist. All our professions are codified into silos and spring from human impulses that we all share.
Does it bother you that others are rediscovering parts of themselves that were common before the advent of modern education, which is designed to develop analytical processes at the cost of more rounded possibilities that humans are capable of? Simply because it is designed to cater to 20th century needs driven by forces like industrialisation and urbanisation?
Erecting barriers are what all professionals do, their economic value and livelihood depends on it.
Well, you had better shape up or perish because the profession is metamorphosing.
It is no longer confined to the realms of applied art and craft or indeed products.
Do you imagine that design doesn’t function at the interface of governance and people, or social justice and the citizen?
No products there necessarily, of any kind.
There will always be a place for products with roots in art and craft but there is more. Design is expanding its bandwidth and we are discovering that the processes we honed there are applicable in many areas of human life.
Design thinking is becoming mainstream in response to newer challenges which humans everywhere are facing.
It would be a pity if the only people caught unawares are trained designers.
Imagine, before the 20th century, design wasn’t considered a profession. Does that mean that it didn’t exist. All our professions are codified into silos and spring from human impulses that we all share.
Does it bother you that others are rediscovering parts of themselves that were common before the advent of modern education, which is designed to develop analytical processes at the cost of more rounded possibilities that humans are capable of? Simply because it is designed to cater to 20th century needs driven by forces like industrialisation and urbanisation?
Erecting barriers are what all professionals do, their economic value and livelihood depends on it.
Well, you had better shape up or perish because the profession is metamorphosing.
It is no longer confined to the realms of applied art and craft or indeed products.
Do you imagine that design doesn’t function at the interface of governance and people, or social justice and the citizen?
No products there necessarily, of any kind.
There will always be a place for products with roots in art and craft but there is more. Design is expanding its bandwidth and we are discovering that the processes we honed there are applicable in many areas of human life.
Design thinking is becoming mainstream in response to newer challenges which humans everywhere are facing.
It would be a pity if the only people caught unawares are trained designers.
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