It really is time to increase weightage of subjects like drawing; craft studies and practice; form, material and colour studies; music etc. in the school curriculum. Apart from reading, writing and arithmetic the connections and relationships between various subjects could do with more emphasis. Time for some holistic approaches.
May even go some way to help get past this current fascination with ‘design thinking’ as an added bonus. Problem solving will automatically become more holistic for everyone. This kind of thinking will find integration with other more critical and analytical approaches.
The profession of ‘Design’ can be left to focus on the relationships of human beings with all that is given to us by nature and all the systems that we build within it. The complex interfaces between who we are and can be and the worlds we build, tangible and intangible.
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