Rethinking Design Education...

[...] if we don’t want design to become or remain “a branch of product development, marketing communication, and
technological fetishism,” if it is not to remain a reactive attitude, it will have to become proactive; in other words it will have to propose “new scenarios for the future” (Manzini). [...] I reply that the profile of design professions need not—and should not—remain what it is today, otherwise these professions might disappear. It is, therefore, our responsibility to imagine the future profile of our professions...
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Alain Findeli (Rethinking Design Education for the 21st Century:
Theoretical, Methodological, and Ethical Discussion)