NASAD Design Futures Working Group

Updated July 29, 2009

In Summer 2008, NASAD empanelled a working group focusing on futures issues in design and design education. The purpose of this group is to explore issues surrounding design and design education from a “beyond accreditation” perspective. Its mode of working is exploratory, open-ended in nature, and intended to facilitate and synthesize a field-wide discussion on issues related to design, its future, and training in design.

Members of this group will meet periodically over a multiyear period. Information and comment will be gathered and consultation sought from the NASAD membership and related organizations. Ideas and proposals gathered and synthesized by the group will be disseminated by NASAD to assist institutions in local decision-making.

Members of the Working Group include:

Karen Monzel Hughes, University of Cincinnati, Chair
Eric Anderson, Carnegie Mellon University
Meredith Davis, North Carolina State University
Ellen Lupton, Maryland Institute College of Art
Susan King Roth, Ontario College of Art and Design
David Weightman, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

NASAD is gathering topics, issues, and papers on a continuing basis for consideration by the Working Group, Please feel free to submit suggestions and concerns at any time.

Please send any items for consideration to:

Matt Sullenbrand
Assistant to the Executive Director
National Association of Schools of Art and Design
11250 Roger Bacon Dr., Suite 21
Reston, VA 20190

msullenbrand@arts-accredit.org
Phone: (703) 437-0700, Ex. 20
Fax: (703) 437-6312

This posting will be updated periodically as projects of the Working Group develop.