Dear friends,I have just published a new article on Medium titled Reality Is Not a Brief: Carlo Rovelli, Design Education and the Collapse of the Fixed World.The article begins with Carlo Rovelli’s extraordinary ideas about physics, space, time, rela...
Dan Vlahos is a Boston-based design leader, educator, and researcher. He is currently a Senior Lecturer at Bentley University and is serving on the AIGA Boston Board. Vlahos is also a member of the Boston Society of Printers, the Design Management In...
Our guest today is Jan Kubasiewicz, Professor of Design at Massachusetts College of Art and Design and one of the most influential figures in the development of dynamic media and motion design education. Born and educated in Poland, Jan has spent dec...
We Built the Machine in Our Own Image: Design, AI, and the Failure of ImaginationA designer, particularly one working within the traditions of interaction design and experiential thinking articulated by Pontus Wärnestål, would begin elsewhere. Not wi...
It’s time to make the invisible visible. Educators and professionals need to bridge the gap by explicitly teaching the "soft skills" and professional realities that define a design career.Read more here:https://heretakis.medium.com/the-invisible-curr...
It’s time to make the invisible visible. Educators and professionals need to bridge the gap by explicitly teaching the "soft skills" and professional realities that define a design career.Read more here:https://heretakis.medium.com/the-invisible-curr...
JELO6 Project / ATHENS 202613–17 May 2026 | Benaki Museum – Pireos 138 & Citywide VenuesTheme: Can Art Ultimately Be A-Political?In May 2026, Athens becomes a living laboratory of contemporary making, thought, and exchange as the JELO6 Project re...
We are living through a moment of exposure. Artificial intelligence did not create the crisis in design education. It revealed it.
Nikolaus Hafermaas is a designer, educator, artist, and lifelong experimenter whose career moves fluidly between practice and pedagogy, Europe and the United States, the analogue and the digital. A self-described classic car romantic and spirited dri...
AI didn't break education, it revealed that we had quietly stopped requiring the thinking and started accepting the product in its place. When a student submits AI-generated work, they haven't skipped the homework; they've skipped the development, th...
Christian Dominique, co-founder of Digital Wellness and trained neuroscientist from McGill University, is on a mission to redesign education systems that have forgotten how to cultivate joy. In this compelling episode of Design Education Talks, Domin...
James Grady is a designer, educator, and creative researcher who fosters interdisciplinary collaboration in design, technology, and performance. As an Assistant Professor of Graphic Design at Boston University, he works closely with faculty, students...
Today on Design Education Talks, we’re joined by John McFaul , Executive Creative Director, Brand Consultant, Educator, and one of those rare, restless creatives who has never quite fitted into the neat boxes the world tries to offer. From the Wirral...
Design has been domesticated into a polite, portfolio-friendly profession—sanitised, aestheticised, stripped of its teeth. But design was never meant to be safe. It was meant to expose, to question, to disrupt.
As AI, economic pressures, and shifting employment landscapes reshape the industry, institutions must prioritise adaptability, collaboration, and critical thinking. The future belongs to those who embrace change, and educators like Jac Batey are lead...
