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Making creative practice research visible After twenty-five years of progress creative practice research no longer needs to justify itself, writes Roy Hanney – but it still lacks the infrastructure to thrive.

Making #creative practice research visible. via @wonkhe.bsky.social wonkhe.com/blogs/making...

Why Britain Can’t Achieve Anything In Britain, the Planning is the Project

Britain's Governing Class Can't Build Anything. By Design.
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The SoTL Guide The SoTL Guide Center for Engaged Learning

SoTL Guide is a practical, accessible and engaging book that guides readers through clear steps to develop their own scholarship of teaching and learning.The authors invite readers to share their views of what “doing SoTL” might mean. www.centerforengagedlearning.org/books/the-so...

Becoming the Designer You Already Are The challenge in design today is not the crowd but the chorus. Too many designers are trying to sing the same note, to echo one another’s aesthetics, to produce safe and predictable work.

Are you following trends or following yourself? Awaken your #design journey and create work that truly matters. www.linkedin.com/pulse/becomi...

When Form Forgets Function: The Typographic Overconfidence of Apple’s iPhone 17 Pro Apple used to speak softly, now it shouts. The iPhone 17 Pro’s new typography is bold, extended, and loud. But in chasing power, has Apple sacrificed the restraint that made its design language timeless? Our latest article unpacks this visual shift and critiques how the company’s typographic voice has grown too heavy for its own harmony.

When Form Forgets Function: The Typographic Overconfidence of Apple’s iPhone 17 Pro

Apple used to speak softly, now it shouts. The iPhone 17 Pro’s new typography is bold, extended, and loud. But in chasing power, has Apple sacrificed the restraint that made its design language timeless? Our latest…

When Form Forgets Function: The Typographic Overconfidence of Apple’s iPhone 17 Pro Apple’s new iPhone 17 Pro typography trades elegance for ego, a bold move that shouts where silence once spoke.

The new iPhone 17 Pro wordmark isn’t progress — it’s noise.
Apple traded proportion for power, clarity for spectacle.
Tschichold would have winced. heretakis.medium.com/when-form-fo...

Craft for the AI Age A manifesto for mindful design education. It calls for a return to craft as the foundation of judgement, ethics, and creativity in an automated world, reminding us that true innovation begins with care, reflection, and human discernment.

Craft for the AI Age

A manifesto for mindful design education. It calls for a return to craft as the foundation of judgement, ethics, and creativity in an automated world, reminding us that true innovation begins with care, reflection, and human discernment.

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True #Creativity Is Priceless: How Education Lost Its Imagination app.inspo.expert/post?postID=...

True Creativity Is Priceless: How Education Lost Its Imagination Contemporary education for prioritising compliance over creativity, reducing students to passive recipients of knowledge. Influenced by thinkers like Ruskin and Freire, we argues that this mechanisation makes AI appear intelligent while genuine creativity suffers. To reclaim education, we must foster imagination and critical thinking in learners.

True Creativity Is Priceless: How Education Lost Its Imagination

Contemporary education for prioritising compliance over creativity, reducing students to passive recipients of knowledge. Influenced by thinkers like Ruskin and Freire, we argues that this mechanisation makes AI appear intelligent…

The Peril of Book Bans and the Future of Higher Education It is there, where they burn books, that eventually they burn people. Heinrich Heine

Protecting the freedom to #read is inseparable from protecting the freedom to #think. heretakis.medium.com/the-peril-of...

The Discipline of Commitment in Design Education. Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of intelligent effort.”, John Ruskin

There is no #design without #devotion.
No #progress without #persistence.
No education without commitment.
New essay: The Discipline of Commitment in Design Education
Featuring Ruskin, Rand, Munari & Vignelli. #DesignEducation #DesignPhilosophy
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NEB Trophy 2026 - Design Competition NEB Trophy 2026 - Design Competition

NEB Trophy 2026 - #Design Competition
The @ec.europa.eu Commission is launching an EU-wide competition for students to design the first official trophy of the New European Bauhaus Prizes. new-european-bauhaus.europa.eu/neb-trophy-2...

The Discipline of Commitment in Design Education.

There is no design without devotion. No progress without persistence. No education without commitment. We explore what it truly means to stay with the process, to teach, to learn, and to design with purpose. Featuring thoughts from Ruskin, Rand,…

What if the classroom wasn’t a factory, but a studio, where imagination is nurtured as our most vital faculty? 🎨

Design education must lead a revolution in learning.
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The Future of Design: Dylan Field and Pontus Wärnestål on AI, Collaboration, and Creativity AI is changing design—but not replacing it. Dylan Field (Figma) highlights speed and collaboration, while Pontus Wärnestål (Designing AI-Powered Services) urges us to design for ethics, trust and societal impact. The future of design is human-centred, collaborative and deeply responsible

The Future of Design: Dylan Field and Pontus Wärnestål on AI, Collaboration, and Creativity

AI is changing design—but not replacing it. Dylan Field (Figma) highlights speed and collaboration, while Pontus Wärnestål (Designing AI-Powered Services) urges us to design for ethics, trust and societal…

Thank you, its os important for the community to work on this as a collective!

The Elephant in the Room: How Social Class Is Quietly Redefining Design Education The elephant in the room isn’t just privilege, it’s what happens to design if we let privilege lead.

@heretakis.bsky.social on the unequal price of becoming a designer:

"The children of privilege are here in growing numbers, reshaping the very landscape of design education."

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#Design #DesignEducation #SocialClass

The Future of Design: Dylan Field and Pontus Wärnestål on AI, Collaboration, and Creativity The future of design is being reshaped by artificial intelligence, yet Dylan Field, co-founder of Figma, reminds us that the discipline remains profoundly human. AI today is not a full creative decisi...

AI won’t replace designers, it will reshape how we #design.
@zoink.bsky.social ( @figma.com ) & Pontus Wärnestål show us that the future of design is collaborative, ethical & deeply human.
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#AI #Design #FutureOfDesign

The Elephant in the Room: How Social Class Is Quietly Redefining Design Education The elephant in the room isn’t just privilege, it’s what happens to design if we let privilege lead.

“#Creativity may flourish under constraint—but it suffocates under poverty.” #DesignEducation is being reshaped by privilege. If we don’t address it, diversity of thought will vanish. heretakis.medium.com/the-elephant...

The productivity paradox: @joezadeh.bsky.social on why AI won’t speed up creative work. ow.ly/Hkix50X0f2R

Happening now: DesignEuropa Awards 2025 via EUIPO hashtag#DesignEuropaAwards hashtag#DesignEuropa www.linkedin.com/events/73682...

Design Education Talks Among the World’s Top Art Education Podcasts Design Education Talks Among the World’s Top Art Education Podcasts

Design Education Talks Among the World’s Top Art Education Podcasts
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Design Education and the Courage to Think Differently Discover why design education must champion difference, imagination, and the courage to think differently.

#DesignEducation must champion #curiosity, #imagination, and the courage to think differently. Nietzsche warned: valuing sameness over difference corrupts young minds. Studios should be spaces of #dissent, #creativity, and ethical thinking. heretakis.medium.com/design-educa...

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Education’s Imagination Crisis: Why We Need Art Schools for the Mind When artist Patrick Brill, better known as Bob and Roberta Smith, declared, “All schools should be art schools,” his words were not a call to mass-produce painters or sculptors. They were a manifesto for reimagining education itself , a system that, for centuries, has prioritised conformity over curiosity, standardisation over creativity, and compliance over critical thinking. At its heart, Brill’s statement challenges us to ask: What if schools were designed not to “teach” but to “ignite”? The Prussian Paradox: How Fear Shaped Modern Schooling To understand why education stifles imagination, we must revisit 19th-century Prussia.

Unlock creativity and rescue our future: discovering why education’s imagination crisis demands art schools. Dive into how fostering creativity, not just knowledge, reshapes learners, communities, and innovation. Read more to champion the arts—it’s time to rebuild education’s soul.

Towards a Dynamic Discipline of Design: A Journey Through Time and Thought Towards a Dynamic Discipline of Design reimagines design as a fluid, alterplinary force beyond static definitions. Premiering at MODE 2025, the film journeys from ancient hand-axes to systemic futures, showing design as the table for collaboration, innovation, and leadership. Watch the film and join the dialogue.

Towards a Dynamic Discipline of Design: A Journey Through Time and Thought

Towards a Dynamic Discipline of Design reimagines design as a fluid, alterplinary force beyond static definitions. Premiering at MODE 2025, the film journeys from ancient hand-axes to systemic futures, showing design as the…

Lefteris Heretakis: Igniting Creative Minds Lefteris Heretakis stands at the intersection of inspiration and innovation. In “Igniting Creative Minds,” he opens a window into the artistic universe that fuels his work—sharing the stories, motivations, and philosophies that spark both personal expression and collective imagination. From the earliest seeds of curiosity to the ambitious visions yet to unfold, this interview illuminates how one creator’s journey can light the way for many.

Lefteris Heretakis: Igniting Creative Minds

Lefteris Heretakis stands at the intersection of inspiration and innovation. In “Igniting Creative Minds,” he opens a window into the artistic universe that fuels his work—sharing the stories, motivations, and philosophies that spark both personal…

Lefteris Heretakis: Igniting Creative Minds - CooterMag In the symphony of human thought, where voices weave dreams and questions spark light, Lefteris Heretakis stands as a beacon, a guide for seeking minds. An educator and podcaster, he journeys through ...

#Design isn’t decoration, it’s transformation.
In this Cooter Mag interview, I share my journey and why igniting #imagination is more urgent than ever.
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The Future of Design Education | Innovation & Creative Leadership Explore how innovation in design education is shaping creative leadership, moving beyond rote learning to prepare students for tomorrow’s challenges.

Why outdated #DesignEducation no longer works in an evolving world, and how new approaches can prepare future #leaders. #Design #Education www.inspo.expert/blog/future-...