just stumbled across this piece argiung that we are basically sabotaging our own future by letting design and technology education rot. it is pretty wild to think about how much the decline in these subjects directly threatens what is left of our creative and engineering sectors. if we stop teaching the fundamentals of how things are actually made, we lose the backbone of manufacturing too. it feels like we are moving toward a world where everyone can use software but
nobody understands the physical constraints of production.
>the current state of uk design education is a disaster for long-term innovationit is easy to get caught up in purely digital workflows and forget that hardware and engineering still matter.
we are literally designing ourselves into a corner . i wonder if the shift toward purely software-based curriculum is why we see so many talented designers struggle when they have to deal with real-world prototyping or physical constraints. it makes me think about whether we should be pushing for more
integrated technical training in schools rather than just separating digital art from engineering. does anyone else feel like the gap between digital design and actual manufacturing is getting wider every year?
found this here:
https://www.creativebloq.com/design/why-design-and-technology-education-needs-a-shake-up