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Why design should be rated alongside science | Education | The Guardian
The exclusion of design subjects from Stem ignores the coterminous nature of these subjects, with science in the employment market and the strategic significance of design as a contributor to the economy.
BLDGBLOG: Who would want to be an architect?
much of the Times's criticism seems predicated on the assumption that, if architecture is a vocational trade, similar to plumbing, then it cannot simultaneously be an expressive art, akin to film, painting, or literature. But, of course, it is both. In fact, the controversy more or less instantly disappears: architecture is the imaginative production of future worlds even as it is the act of building houses for the urban poor or the obtaining of technical skills necessary for rationally subdividing office floorplates.
The End of Solitude - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education
At issue: "we no longer believe in the solitary mind. "
Studious “Passion” for Solitude | Flexknowlogy - Jared Stein on Education and Technology
this independent study gets me thinking about distance learning and open education. I wonder about the potential power of studying in isolation, immersing one’s self in one’s own creativity, and maximizing one’s efforts through self-discipline.
P2P Foundation » Blog Archive » Modularity and creativity
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Add Sticky Notehe key here is _whose_ creativity is being enabled by this. Modernist use of modularity generally wasn’t concerned with enabling the creativity of the inhabitants of buildings and so was indeed folly.
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Add Sticky NoteMost of the architecture in the world isn’t designed by architects -just as most of the clothes in the world isn’t haute couture. Thinking about where building technology has the most impact in terms of social empowerment is what matters here.
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Teaching Creativity | 2¢ Worth
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However, it is also our tendency to teach a topic or skill by breaking it down and teaching its component elements. Although this is useful, we often lose the overall message of the topic or intent and spirit of the skill by focusing in on its parts. I hope that this does not happen as we start to pay explicit attention to student (and teacher) creativity.
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