Stephie Müller

Motivation

After more than 15 years in visual design, I would like to address the challenges facing design education at universities. Which aspects must, should, or may change?

Since my experience ranges from self-employment to small studios/offices to large agencies and companies, as well as teaching, I am very aware of the gap between theory and practice.

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Intention

An individual doctorate in design didactics.

Keywords:

#Post-Digital Design Pedagogy, #Algorithmic Literacy & Agency,
#Human-AI Co-Creativity, #Epistemology of Synthetic Images,
#Critical Design Leadership, #Speculative Information Architecture,
#Ethical Governance in Design Workflows, #Agile Curricula Transformation, #Socio-Technical Design Theory, #Practice-Led Research Methodology

Contacting potential mentors
Norrowing down the topic

Current Status

Contextualisation of the topic
Researching European design universities and their study plans and didactic content
Gathering historical material on design education
Preparing a quantitative survey on the status quo and satisfaction of current students and alumni
Preparing interview sets for qualitative research with techears and professors in academic education