Yesterday we launched the joint project: Design is Dead, Long Live Design [The Great Goldsmiths Design Debate]. It’s a week long, intensive project were teams of second and third year BA Design students [together with a sprinkling of MA Critical Practice students] design, discuss and debate topics that they are given by the staff team. This year the polemics are:

Design is activism / Design is not activism
Design is pollution / Design is not pollution
Design should aid social mobility / Design should not aid social mobility
Design should be playful / Design should not be playful
Design is a problem solving activity / Design is not a problem solving activity
Design should serve industry / Design should not serve industry
Design should be made for the art gallery market / Design should not be made for the art gallery market
Design is a survival instinct / Design is not a survival instinct
Design is context driven / Design is not context driven
Design is white collar / Design is blue collar
Design is for the future / Design is for the present

Yesterday they were asked to create a leaflet exposing their position in the argument – the leaflet was seen as the first stage in a war of propaganda. The project culminates in a day of debate, which will take place on Friday in Goldsmiths Great Hall.

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