New Design Education @designschool.bsky.social · 03/10/2026"careerist endeavours" and opportunistic "moves to innocence" plague Design Research. Just pay attention: Did this person start working with community for their individual gain? PhD, publications? Or did they have a long and legitimate praxis in the field years before? It's that simple 000
New Design Education @designschool.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Design research since 2016 has mainstreamed the #decolonisation discourse with some individual authors becoming celebrities in an untouched edifice. #Pluriversal became "merely additive to the existing system" (p. 5) the "Frida Kahlo" effect 100
Reposted by New Design EducationDesign Magazine @desginmagazine.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Festival of Design Aotearoa 2026 The Festival of Design Aotearoa is taking place in Whanganui & Palmerston North, New Zealand, from October 16th to 25th of 2026. More info www.festivalofdesign.co.nz 011
New Design Education @designschool.bsky.social · 11/07/2026Every designer and design educator claiming to be working on SDGs needs to start here... 031
New Design Education @designschool.bsky.social · 01/07/2026This seemingly reasonable way of thinking reeks of privilege and is widely held in the West as "empathy". No, the reason to fight is our shared humanity, not our personal risk. 010
New Design Education @designschool.bsky.social · 29/06/2026Good design apparently is beautifying junk "food" 100
Reposted by New Design Educationve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 25/06/2026I don’t understand why more engineers aren’t outraged that they were targeted to receive a standard substandard professional education that enabled them to program the new machines, but not to understand the social assemblages and responsibilities that this programming entangled them into. 1111935
Reposted by New Design EducationInsideEVs @insideevs.com · 09/06/2026The Olinia Uno seats six, can take a wheelchair, and is made, designed, and developed entirely in Mexico.insideevs.comMexican EV Startup Unveils $8,600 State-Backed EV With 6 SeatsThe Olinia Uno seats six, can take a wheelchair, and is made, designed, and developed entirely in Mexico. 68416
Reposted by New Design EducationJeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 16/06/2026One student wrote of the belief among their classmates in another course that their professor had turned to "robograding," outsourcing evaluation of their work to AI. So why not use AI to write it? This student knows how cynical that is. It doesn't feel good. They wish there was another way. 8/ 81793136
New Design Education @designschool.bsky.social · 15/06/2026and a second student said: "Design is first and foremost about understanding people" 010
New Design Education @designschool.bsky.social · 15/06/2026Undergrad students discussing the merits and pitfalls of the "design process" as articulated by @jennywen.ca and one of them coined this beauty: "Any process provides a creative floor, not a creative ceiling". Mind you, 19 year olds getting the essence of design practice 111
New Design Education @designschool.bsky.social · 09/06/2026We are going to need a workshop or two in design research conferences to guide PhDers (to avoid calling them students) in the planning and execution of their posters. Content is often impacted by limited design choices 000
New Design Education @designschool.bsky.social · 09/06/2026study.ed.ac.uk/programmes/p... Design for Change MAstudy.ed.ac.ukDesign for Change MA (eca) - Postgraduate taught programmesStudy MA in Design for Change at the University of Edinburgh. Our postgraduate degree programme, taught at Edinburgh College of Art, is ideal if you wish to broaden existing specialist approaches with... 010
New Design Education @designschool.bsky.social · 09/06/2026www.instituteofmachineunlearning.com Institute of Machine Unlearning Para-academic playground for collective unlearning and feral pedagogy.instituteofmachineunlearning.comInstitute of Machine Unlearning 010
New Design Education @designschool.bsky.social · 09/06/2026Provocative presentation by Indy Johar at #DRS26 How Might We revalue the human in a +3 degree world? 021
Reposted by New Design EducationGod @thegodshow.com · 04/06/2026I was told that AI was inevitable and to just go along with it and there was nothing anyone could do to stop it. Pretty sure that attitude was fucking wrong. People are fighting back. Turns out they don’t want to be replaced by a glorified magic 8-ball. 601170186
Reposted by New Design Education888lin.bsky.social @888lin.bsky.social · 02/06/2026Foundational mistake - demanding that universities be "run like a business" and make profits. The "profits" from education are in having educated citizens able to contribute to society In a wide variety of crucial ways. 1165
Reposted by New Design EducationChain Bear @stuartcb.bsky.social · 22/04/2026I feel like hating AI is a many layered thing that keeps pummeling you like Homer against the Krusty burglar. It starts with the artist theft and taking all the resources and ends with the "stop forcing it into fucking everything oh my god leave me alone" 13482133
Reposted by New Design EducationSursiendo @sursiendo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/04/2026📚 Dictionary of Radical Alternatives: repositorio colaborativo de propuestas políticas, económicas y culturales para imaginar y construir modelos más justos y comunes. ¡Está bello! Pasen a ver: dictionaryofradicalalternatives.org… 🔗 🌿 Compartamos estas alternativas y […]mastodon.socialOriginal post on mastodon.social 031
New Design Education @designschool.bsky.social · 15/04/2026"the loss of so many Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps leaders have removed some of the brakes on the creative minds pushing out the propaganda" Unintended effects backfiring the USA-Israel war strategists: they've unleashed GenZ creativity www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...theguardian.comViral victory: Iran is beating the land of tech bros in the social media warsWith AI-generated comedy videos and lego animations of Trump, Iranian content creators are using humour in propaganda battle against US 000
Reposted by New Design EducationPavel @spavel.bsky.social · 14/04/2026Remarkably this is exactly the same as the list of skills in high impact designers 2282
New Design Education @designschool.bsky.social · 13/04/2026What a powerful and beautifully moving film. Our humanity, no-one can ever take it away from us. We cried with anger and love and hope and respect. Thank you Cherien Dabis! 010
New Design Education @designschool.bsky.social · 21/03/2025Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings. Day 7 040
New Design Education @designschool.bsky.social · 20/03/2025Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings. Day 6 050
New Design Education @designschool.bsky.social · 19/03/2025Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings. Day 5 020
New Design Education @designschool.bsky.social · 19/03/2025Research proposals are like marriage proposals... 000
New Design Education @designschool.bsky.social · 18/03/2025Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings. Day 4 010
New Design Education @designschool.bsky.social · 18/03/2025If we ever needed evidence of how Western design has been aligned with agendas of oppression, waste, excess and elitism, just look at Design Schools focused on luxury and design. Connected to galleries and glossy magazines, disconnected from the people, context, everyday life, futures, justice 010
New Design Education @designschool.bsky.social · 18/03/2025Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings. Day 3 010
Reposted by New Design EducationNew Design Education @designschool.bsky.social · 16/03/2025Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings. Day 2 021
New Design Education @designschool.bsky.social · 16/03/2025Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings. Day 2 021
New Design Education @designschool.bsky.social · 15/03/2025Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings. Day 1 130
New Design Education @designschool.bsky.social · 08/03/2025"the one sin I have come to fear more than any other is certainty. #Certainty is the great enemy of unity. Certainty is the deadly enemy of tolerance... If there was only certainty, and if there was no doubt, there would be no mystery, and therefore no need for faith." R. Harris, Conclave 000
New Design Education @designschool.bsky.social · 27/02/2025I proudly wore this #AlwaysWasAlwaysWillBe tshirt to teach today and felt the hostility from two white male students in my class #notoracism Oh well 110
Reposted by New Design EducationMariana Salgado @salgadomariana.bsky.social · 24/02/2025Tenemos que cambiar la #educación en #diseño porque parte de los diseñadores se quedarán sin trabajo en el futuro. Hay que enseñar la capacidad de imaginar y representar. Y sobre todo pensamiento crítico. #MauricioNovoaMuñoz @disenoydiaspora.bsky.social disenoydiaspora.org/596-educacio...disenoydiaspora.org596. EDUCACIÓN EN DISEÑO 12. Aprender del Sur Global (Chile/Australia). Una charla con Mauricio Novoa Muñoz - Diseño y DiasporaMauricio Novoa Muñoz es un académico y diseñador industrial chileno que trabaja en la Escuela de Ingeniería, Diseño y Ambiente construido de la Universidad del Oeste de Sydney. En esta entrevista hab... 031
New Design Education @designschool.bsky.social · 12/02/2025A history of failures at Philips. Worth remembering how these companies were portrayed as paradigms of design only a couple of decades ago. Good lessons here to challenge the narratives in design education youtube.com/watch?v=WE58...youtube.com 010
New Design Education @designschool.bsky.social · 04/02/2025People in context always do know better than designers. Two examples of the Designer Fallacy. If only we taught design students to trust people, we would avoid the trope that users need to be "educated" by the experts 000
New Design Education @designschool.bsky.social · 04/02/2025Design methods books are painfully limited as a teaching resource, reducing rich and complex practices where people develop sensibilities to caricature procedures that learners follow mechanically. Peak standardisation in education 020
New Design Education @designschool.bsky.social · 21/01/2025@briantylercohen.bsky.social see this scam 020
New Design Education @designschool.bsky.social · 20/01/2025Thank you for giving us more reasons to leave IG and spend more time here 100
New Design Education @designschool.bsky.social · 21/12/2024Best conference in a long long time. University of Cuenca in Ecuador and many groups in Guayaquil are doing some of the most interesting work in "social design" anywhere in the world. But you won't hear about it in the Global North academia 000
New Design Education @designschool.bsky.social · 21/12/2024The quantity and quality of design in everyday life in Mexico is as surprising as how design schools ignore it and instead teach European material culture in the curriculum 000
New Design Education @designschool.bsky.social · 14/11/2024Preparing a couple of manuscripts for the #LearnXDesign conference next year in Portugal including one Visual Submission 000
New Design Education @designschool.bsky.social · 14/11/2024Presentaré en el 6to Congreso 1d34 en la Universidad de Cuenca, Ecuador del 4 al 6 de diciembre 2024 110
New Design Education @designschool.bsky.social · 14/11/2024With the wonderful editors of She Ji the Journal of Design, Economics and Business. College of Design and Innovation, Tongji University 2024 000
New Design Education @designschool.bsky.social · 14/11/2024At Tongji University last week, part of the She Ji editorial board #design 010