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“This has to start with truly interdisciplinary courses - in education we have to stop using ‘the portfolio’ as the entrance requirement (especially at postgraduate level) because that will stop the scientists, medics, athletes, lawyers, accountants and so on studying design. We also have to reassess what we consider to be ‘core’ skills for a designer.
I think there’s a fear that opening up our gene pool to others will produce unpredictable mutants, and that there’ll be a loss of the ‘traditional’ designer. That’s actually the point.”
A Word In Your Ear: Design skills need to be expanded
