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