Digital evolution designer Mika Ilari Koskinen stated in his interview that the new experts of the design field (and service design) are coming from all educational backgrounds in the future, not just a few like it was before, but they all go to work into the expanding creative industry (design + applied arts) and experience industry. He was able to locate the following six specific expertise needs of the design field in the future:
Traditionally the film industry has been lacking in people who carry the responsibility for the realisation of customers’ needs. Directors have had the main role in answering customers’ needs. Service designer Mikko Koivisto describes the work of a movie director as a prototype of service design as directors have to coordinate the work of dozens of professionals from very different fields in order to create a successful project that follows the director’s own vision. Script writers also have a..
Service designers Esa Rauhala (CEO) and Reima Rönnholm from Palmu Inc. state that it would be good for potential recruits to have some education in the basics of service design, but that potential recruits should also have strong competences in design, business, communications, cultural studies, and/or the digital world. Basically the most essential thing is to have a good combination of skills and competences that would enrich the expertise base of the recruiting organisation and that would i..
Service design constitutes a good general toolbox, but a poor subject for degree education, especially if such a degree would be generalistic and full of this and that with no tight connection to the cornerstones of design – industrial or interaction design – and is the contemplated service design degree does not include components from the key competence fields of service business, such as communication, marketing, business, digital issues, cultural studies, etc. The only exceptions would be ..
We are currently conducting research interviews that analyse the evolution of expertise in design and related fields. The interviews, done in the framework of the ServiceD project, also enable us to anticipate the short-term development paths and future competence requirements of the field.
Halfway through the interviews, I find that they have greatly enriched my thinking. For example, my meeting with service designer Markku Nurminen was very interesting. Describing how he understands concept d..
Civilized education can be defined in many different ways. I divide it and parallel talent areas in the following way. Intelligence, i.e. problem solving ability measured in IQ is one area. Logical and mathematical infering or deduction is another, completely separate talent area. Critical thinking or the philosophical ability to think things through from unordinary perspectives is yet another completely separate area of competence and talent. Fourth area of general knowledge is strong self es..
Competence can be divided into three different levels. The first level consists of common knowledge or liberal education, which includes self esteem, willingness to understand, critical thinking, wisdom, curiosity, imagination, entrepreneurial spirit, problem solving abilities, holistic perception, many-sided base of knowledge. The second level consists of generic skills, which include communicational and social skills, language skills, ability to choose and use the right tools, and abilities..
Regular teaching of designers in Estonia started in 1966 when a department of industrial arts was opened at the State Art Institute of the Estonian SSR (presently the Estonian Academy of Arts - EKA). Although the history of the school dates back to 1914, the above year 1966 is considered the beginning of design education in Estonia.
The present EKA faculty of design comprises seven specialities: graphic design, jewellery and blacksmithing, ceramics, glass art, fashion design, leather design, te..