Abstract
From fashion to furniture, magazines to medical equipment, airplanes to auditoriums, design infiltrates and influences every aspect of contemporary life. But if the benefits of good design are to continue to enhance our lives practically and aesthetically then we must change our views on education for sustainable design in order to meet the greatest challenges of the 21st century. In the transdisciplinary understanding of art and design education today, sustainability issues and approaches are viewed as a complicated series of relationships, some of which go back to the early twentieth century. Art and design is a radically diversified field concerned with as many processes as concepts. This paper will endeavour to understand some of the trends, developments and responses within art and design practice in recent years, it will assess how our conceptions of art and design are relevant to the problems surrounding global debate on the future of the planet and whether art and design can play a meaningful role in the future in terms of education for sustainable development (ESD). Modern lifestyles and material cultures made possible by design are now so deeply implicated in un-sustainability that a re-writing seems inevitable not only of design history but aspects of art history too.
Keywords
Change Making, Descriptive/Empirical/Validity/Design/Art
DOI
https://doi.org/10.21606/learnxdesign.2013.036
Citation
Davis, P.Q.(2013) Changing Attitudes Towards Art and Design: Activating Expectations and Design Change, in Reitan, J.B., Lloyd, P., Bohemia, E., Nielsen, L.M., Digranes, I., & Lutnæs, E. (eds.), DRS // Cumulus: Design Learning for Tomorrow, 14-17 May, Oslo, Norway. https://doi.org/10.21606/learnxdesign.2013.036
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Changing Attitudes Towards Art and Design: Activating Expectations and Design Change
From fashion to furniture, magazines to medical equipment, airplanes to auditoriums, design infiltrates and influences every aspect of contemporary life. But if the benefits of good design are to continue to enhance our lives practically and aesthetically then we must change our views on education for sustainable design in order to meet the greatest challenges of the 21st century. In the transdisciplinary understanding of art and design education today, sustainability issues and approaches are viewed as a complicated series of relationships, some of which go back to the early twentieth century. Art and design is a radically diversified field concerned with as many processes as concepts. This paper will endeavour to understand some of the trends, developments and responses within art and design practice in recent years, it will assess how our conceptions of art and design are relevant to the problems surrounding global debate on the future of the planet and whether art and design can play a meaningful role in the future in terms of education for sustainable development (ESD). Modern lifestyles and material cultures made possible by design are now so deeply implicated in un-sustainability that a re-writing seems inevitable not only of design history but aspects of art history too.