Public education 2.0 Is it important to you that the audience likes what you show at Kin? ‘It's important that they perceive our exhibitions as essential. They don't have to embrace them or think they're good. I never think about what visitors will think of an exhibition. My focus is on showing things that […]
Theme: The changing educational landscape Danish craft and design schools have been in a state of flux for a number of years. Political reforms, cutbacks, name changes, cash-strapped thinking and the climate crisis have influenced how craftsmen and designers are educated. Formkraft gives column space to different voices to get a nuanced insight into […]
[…] and Anny Wang is a trained designer, but they have abandoned the idea of classical working methods, creating a shared hybrid practice. In addition to their formal education, they consider themselves self-taught in the digital. They have spent many hours watching tutorials online and delving into various forms of hardware and software, experimenting. So, […]
[…] future is meeting the students. The students want to move in a new direction, and they are actively doing it. That is also why current developments within education and research are so important, including DSKD Design School Kolding’s new interdisciplinary MA, Design for Planet and its involvement in the three-year Erasmus+ project FashionSEEDS (Fashion Societal, Economic […]
[…] about crafts in this context is their intimate and literally hands-on relations to materials. Knowing and understanding the material has always been a key element of craft education and practice, which holds great potential as a source of learning for design. The irony is that design education ever since the 1950s has struggled to […]
