or new field in art education development?
Organiser: Jacqueline Febvre, IAV École supérieure d’art et de design, Orléans
Recently, Design - product, space, graphic, service design – has been introduced into schools of fine art, raising new questions in social, science, human sectors and opening new fields of research and new processes.
Design has been considered for a long time as a technical discipline, or a “tool to sell”; maybe the only field of industry open to social and environmental changes, it seems nowadays in charge of a new vision for the world. The benefit of new technologies, new materials, new softwares, as digital 3D tools, interactivity, has given freedom to young designers to investigate domains of space, movements, uses, environmental questions. Design is apparently playing a new role in the artistic education methodologies, giving new way of thinking and organizing creation, bringing new input on a wide range of applied researches and experimentations.
On the other hand, art is certainly bringing its singularity and sensitivity to the discipline, bringing fresh air in what was mainly devoted to industrial creation.
We would like to focus on the emerging research in the design sector and its place nowadays in art education.
We are looking for proposals on the following questions:
- Can we specify the design curriculum in Art education: examples of emerging fields of design research; design mixing approaches of sciences, techniques, environment, design as a new field of art ?
- Design is some times called a “process”, or a “way of thinking”. Are there examples of contribution of design methodologies on artistic education (and vice-versa) ?
- Design as driver of new shapes and concepts (- new interfaces – communicant spaces - relation of human body and environment, new shapes born of algorithmic softwares and biodesign, ecodesign…)
