In the light of my latest delicious bookmark posting today Core77 attracted my attention by pointing to a current online article in International Herald Tribune. Among others it sheds some closer light on Paola Antonelli’s view on design’s relationship with science and technology.
At the recent World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, CH “… Alice Rawsthorn, the design critic of the International Herald Tribune and a former director of the Design Museum in London; Paola Antonelli, senior curator of architecture and design at the Museum of Modern Art in New York; Hilary Cottam, who develops design solutions to problems in education, health care and other public services as co-founder of the London-based agency Participle; and John Maeda, the digital design star and newly appointed president of the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD)…” shared their view on the future of design.
As touched above the overarching domain according to their view is that the challenge for Design/Designers is to link the gap between technological advances and relevance for the end user. This clearly confirms my ongoing quest for integrating the topic of “Management of Technological Innovation” into curricula of both undergraduate as well as post-graduate design management programmes.
