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@johnthackara

Futures of

Design Education

Pearl Academy / What‟s Next

New Delhi, 19 December 2014

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1 Drivers of Change WHY

2 Curriculum of the Future WHAT

3 Learners of the Future WHO

4 Pedagogy HOW

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1 Drivers of Change WHY

2 Curriculum of the Future WHAT

3 Learners of the Future WHO

4 Pedagogy HOW

+ the opportunity for business

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1. Drivers of Change (WHY)

One x 60

energy & resource intensity

One One

>> „development‟ >>

Peak credit

financialisation of energy and

resources

INFORMALISATION 65% of all workers by 2020

(OECD)

Shoe City, Ethiopia av.wage US$35

and impoverishment of the formal

“desert of the real”

metabolic rift

perpetual growth ?

Céline Boyer

(DRIVERS)

new values

uniqueness of place

reconnecting with soils

reconnecting with rivers

reconnecting with biodiversity

value lies in that which cannot scale

place ecology craft

(re-)connecting through making

values now (re-)emerging >

The Great Turning

“the shift from

industrial growth society

to a

life-sustaining civilization”

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“A global transformation of values has

already begun...a sustainable society would be

welcomed by seventy percent of

world society”

2. Curriculum of the future (WHAT)

(er, no thanks)

nourishlife.org

acting & thinking

at the scale of whole systems

catalysing

social-ecological systems

growing „transactional capacity‟

Crit, Mumbai

nurturing service ecologies

learning from informal economies

seeking out local ecological knowledge

urban

rural

connecting

biodiversifying the city

LANDSHARE UK connecting people and spaces in new ways

formal informal

3 LEARNERS (WHO)

in a social-ecological system,

we are all learners

Learners (WHO) example 1: Fibershed

fibre farmer

knitter

weaver

designer

seamstress

felter

spinner

cotton farmer

natural dyer

mill owner

shop keeper

web producer

assets

certification

Wool & Fiber

Symposia

r&d

global knowledge ecosystem

Ravelry.com 5.5 million members

Xskool // Kanpur as Leathershed

„margin‟ today =

Herder $10 Bag $4,000

new concept of

„margin‟

health of land,

the people who

steward it, and

makers

before > after

Kanpur as Leathershed ?

WORK TO BE DONE

Mapping resources

New farm activities

Traceability

Service platforms / hubs

Tools and equipment

Knowledge sharing

“under what circumstances would

everyone in Kanpur‟s leather ecosystem

share responsibilties and benefits?”

Kanpur as Leathershed ?

WORK TO BE DONE

Mapping resources

New farm activities

Traceability

Service platforms / hubs

Tools and equipment

Knowledge sharing

stakeholders

land - water - cow - herder - agent - tanner

factory - wholesaler - designer - brand

e-commerce - retailer - user - holding

Learners (3): Urban freight

>95% cheaper

velowalah.org

swarm intelligence

5% resources

resilience

solidarity

67,000 threads

4. Pegagogy (HOW)

HOW: curating

(don‟t discuss it - make it !)

HOW = hosting

HOW = learning journey guide

HOW =

talk

designing

HOW = convening

HOW = knowledge curating

HOW = P2P accrediting

4. Pedagogy (HOW)

New jobs and livelihoods for

tomorrow‟s designers

“curator”

“talk designer”

“steward”

“host”

“convenor”

“gardener”

we‟re doing this for them @johnthackara