This is in the context of design education where one is
getting carried away by the florescent, gimmicky technology confused notions of
innovation and design, etc….fiddling and enticed, start-ups, customized manufacturing, programmable objects, etc…
...in the meanwhile
there is lots more to be done, we all know what we mean!!
The country needs ants. Design professionals who are experts
in providing solutions by: following a systemic process, are contextual in problem solving and giving useful,
usable, desirable and empathetic solutions (opportunity
vs problem is a business-friendly term agreed and needed!!).
The curriculum and pedagogy of design education needs to
focus on and train the ants who will sustain growth and the grasshoppers who will reveal the ‘change’ in time. We need the ants, more of them, who have the ability and are trained in the
said skill sets above, while letting the grasshoppers of the lot freewheel in design :)
Ants are the support system, the ‘sthithapragyasa’, and
Grasshoppers constantly challenge and question, ‘the garnishers’. Grasshoppers
are born free that-way and ants are too born in a way that they tread on
ground. It is to identify them by the mentors and drive the pedagogy with a focus on the ants who
will be the solution providers for sustenance and while not missing on those grasshoppers who will add the spice of life, both are meaning towards quality driven by the design school's conscience.
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