ERIC Number: EJ1146247
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2017
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The Y-Shaped Designer--Connective Competences as Key to Collaboration across Disciplines
Eckert, Jan
Journal of Education and Learning, v6 n4 p137-144 2017
This paper reports on the re-development of our MA curriculum in design. Main objective of this development is a more practice- and project-based MA Curriculum that delivers connective competences for the collaboration across disciplines, rather than specializing in a specific design domain. For design education, we therefore propose a re-visited model of T-shaped skills by proposing the Y-shaped Designer, who acts in collaborations across disciplines thanks to a disciplinary root, a clearly perceived role and the ability to generate multimodal design outputs. The paper's discussion is based on a study of the current shift in the Swiss Creative Economy, an alumni survey, a literature review focusing undisciplinarity and a series of expert-workshops, that led to the identification of the required skills our graduates need to successfully connect with a globalizing creative economy. First results are a re-definition of the competences and learning goals targeted in the new curriculum, as well as a set of didactical approaches extending the curriculum to what is meant to become a real-world lab for MA students in design.
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Masters Programs, Competence, Models, Interdisciplinary Approach, Design, Alumni, Surveys, Literature Reviews, Foreign Countries, Labor Market, Creativity, Graduates
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Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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