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Briefly and concisely make 4 statements about design in your teaching:

DESIGN

  • Design is an omnipresent language that reaches many people (without reading books/newspapers or going to a museum)
  • Design translates feelings, thoughts and ideas into products you can touch and try out
  • Design can make rational contexts emotionally accessible
  • Design supports the shaping of cultural developments 

DESIGN PROCESS

  • Inspiration is the sum of the individual and the environment
  • Learning by doing – Experimentation is the best research
  • Sensitive perception produces perception
  • Design and discard are strung together like pearls on a necklace 

TEACHING

  • Design means making
  • Unconventional solutions reveal unexpected potential
  • Design is created by recognising, appreciating and developing
  • Presentation means communication

KEY ASPECTS

  • behaviour-centred sustainability
  • sapere aude (DIY means think for yourself)
  • sustainable lifestyle change
  • sufficiency