"Wheeling" environmental humanities— Educating designers in excess of what designers do

Abstract

If—on our present horizon—design appears as environmental humanities gone live, education must be a key player in hatching and cultivating the awareness of this possibility.

If—on our present horizon—design appears as environmental humanities gone live, education must be a key player in hatching and cultivating the awareness of this possibility.

Presently field investigations in the design education at Oslo National Academy of the Arts (KHiO) are linked to public culture in different visual areas featuring surfaces, spaces, objects and the human body taught in three different study areas: graphic design & illustration, interior architecture & furniture design, clothing/fashion & costume design (presently clustering in areas of artistic research).

The theory curriculum of the MA programme opens for investigations in a broad sense: making—pace Tim Ingold—as field-investigations gone live. As our notion of the ‘field’ is becoming entangled with the environmental situation, the grounds of a discipline with a theoretical provenance in humanities are shifting, in the sense that design is environmental humanities gone live. An agenda for a reflective practice of making turned to environmental responsivity. To activate video, please click slide number six.

Utgiver: OSEH