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Dear design educators,

Welcome to a new international design community.

Design Education is a safe space to swap and share knowledge, experiences, research, ideas and insights – in order to improve the conditions for learning design at school, university and at work.

The basic rule of thumb is that everyone interested and working with design education is welcome. You don’t need to have the title, but instead are interested in learning and contributing within the area of education in the context of design.

Please share the community with others you think would like it.

Apply to our Slack with a little about you, and what you’d like to get out of the community.

Jenny Theolin (& Tash Willcocks)
Organisers, Design Education

Why join?

  • You believe in the power of design

  • You are an education practitioner

  • You teach design through workshops, lectures, courses, and/or programmes

  • You believe in life-long learning

  • You believe in collaboration

  • You recognise a need for more up-to-date design education

  • You are willing to openly share your experience

  • You are willing to commit time & energy to this community

Slack

Apply to our Slack with a little about you, and what you’d like to get out of the community.

We are currently 600+ members from 18 time zones!

Be prepared to be interactive, as we have channels like SOS for immediate support, Feedback for improving your work, Research for us to share the latest from academia, and many more. So join our community, and let us know how we can support you!

Please note: We go through all the applicants on the first of every month, and only reply to the accepted.

By signing up with your email address, you’re allowing us to email you community-related updates and event invitations.

Gatherings

Virtual event series called Listening Lounge. Recent events: Stress Management with Diksha Chakravarti and Butter Demo with Christopher Holm-Hansen.

Themes

We like to theme our conversation.

Design Education member Ryan Rumsey spent the month of March discussing everything from models to strategies, tips and tricks, resources and guides, as well as discussing the aspects of business that make us uncomfortable as educators. February’s theme was LXD (Learning Experience Design) with guest curator Serj Hunt who shared principles and practices for designing meaningful, effective and emotionally engaging learning experiences.

 

Inspiration & Resources

 

Valencia Design Education Forum

Valencia Design Education Forum 2020 brings together industry, lecturers and students to discover new ways of working together, forging curriculum that is more appropriate for this time. VDEF2020 is a practitioner’s conference that seeks solutions that are immediately applicable for the betterment of Art and Design Education as a whole.

The School of Design

The School of Design enables aspiring entrepreneurs to accelerate their ideas for design-focused products, getting them off the ground: The School of Design is a community for design-focused entrepreneurs, building the products of tomorrow.

This Is Not University

This Is Not University is a mentoring and career guidance initiative run by Sydney design studio Christopher Doyle & Co. It is aimed at bridging the gap between between full-time study and full-time work, offering design students a series of mentoring and guidance sessions with design professionals over a 3 months period.

 

Hyper Island

Hyper Island designs transformative learning experiences to enable growth for individuals and for businesses. Unlike typical education or service providers, we follow a tried-and-tested methodology and a wide network of real industry experts. Through our global network of schools and business services, we put people at the heart of innovation, leadership and change for success today and tomorrow.

SuperHI

SuperHI is an online creative education platform and worldwide online community of creatives learning together.

SuperHi is a more affordable, accessible way to learn. You're not paying thousands of dollars extra because we rented a classroom in a prime city location. We teach you wherever you are — our students are in 90 countries and 16 time zones!

Shift Nudge

The all–new online learning experience for designing beautiful and accessible interfaces. Shift Nudge is the systematic process to learn the visual skills of interface design, even if you don't have a design background. Perfect for those wanting to enter or advance in the field.

 

Design Education Talks

An open discussion on art and design education, creativity and design thinking by designer and lecturer Lefteris Heretakis, the team of the New Art school and the Design Dedux Podcast. Seeking solutions to contemporary #art and #design #education challenges.

Second Wave Dive

Are you ready take on the systematic realities of change, innovation, leading people, managing outcomes, and providing the value you wish to see in the world? Let’s face it, that sh*t is really hard is do alone. That’s where we come in—training, coaching, and communities for the next wave of leadership.

The New Digital School

The New Digital School is an innovative digital design program. TNDS is tailored to and driven by each student’s professional goals and personal needs. It’s a place to work on both personal and client projects, with the support and guidance of industry experts, a network of mentors, a team of facilitators and your fellow students.

 

Center Centre

Center Centre’s one-of-a-kind, built-from-scratch curriculum prepares well-rounded junior user experience (UX) designers that companies need. Located in downtown Chattanooga, TN, we’re a bricks-and-mortar school offering a two-year, full-time program in user experience design—the first and only of its kind.

Toolbox Toolbox

A curated list of the best business, design, and organisational change toolboxes built by some of the most influential companies, institutions and thinkers.

RSA Animate: Changing Education Paradigms (VIDEO)

This RSA Animate was adapted from a talk given at the RSA by Sir Ken Robinson, world-renowned education and creativity expert and recipient of the RSA's Benjamin Franklin award. The RSA is a 258 year-old charity devoted to driving social progress and spreading world-changing ideas.

 

Made in the Future Fellowship

Made In the Future is a career-building design program that provides an immersive foundational curriculum, community support network and access to preeminent industry mentorship for aspiring underrepresented designers. Your Fellowship journey begins at the 3-day design Fellowship summit.

Berghs School of Communication

At Berghs we know that communication contributes to unlocking innovative solutions for the challenges of today and tomorrow. We believe in integration – among students, programs, disciplines, subjects, the industry, agencies, entrepreneurs, and organizations. That’s why we prepare each individual with an understanding of processes that help them remain current and cutting-edge in this time of fast-paced change.

Oh This Way

Over the years, we've found our heart deep in education. Since starting out in 2015, we've worked with local communities to create learning experiences that addressed industry-wide problems, from the digital skills gap to unemployment. We've seen what a new approach to education can do and the success it can bring for individuals that have craved for something different.

 

The Team

 
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Jenny Theolin, Organiser

Experienced designer, learning leader and educator. With nearly two decades experience working in the design industry, Jenny can now be found working with some of the world’s leading schools, as well as helping corporate companies become learning organisations through co-designing internal processes and programs through her studio.

Currently consulting full-time as Learning & Development Specialist at AFRY.

Previously Programme Director of Digital Design & Strategy at Berghs, Programme Lead of MA Digital Management at Hyper Island and Graphic Design Teacher at Shillington College

Founder of Toolbox Toolbox & WOW Academy

Contact
jenny@studiotheolin.com
+46 (0) 723926805

 
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Tash Willcocks, Organiser

Ex Director of Masters Europe at Hyper Island, co-founder of the Design Education international community, world class designer, illustrator and public speaker, Tash has recently been appointed Head of Learning Design at Snook. With a passion and reputation for radical innovation in design education.

Tash also has spoken all over the globe at events such as Octoberfest Munich, TedX Manchester, Creative Mornings Gothenburg & for HEC in San Francisco.

Contact
tash.willcocks@wearesnook.com
+44 (0) 7921 768881