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4 - Teaching for the Design Singularity: Toward an Entirely Code-based Design Curriculum

from PART II - CODE AS MEDIUM

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2017

Michael Filimowicz
Affiliation:
Simon Fraser University, British Columbia
Veronika Tzankova
Affiliation:
Simon Fraser University, British Columbia
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We can all attest to the fact that digital technologies of all kinds – both hardware and software – are becoming increasingly integrated into both our individual lives and society as a whole. At the forefront of this phenomenon is the contemporary maker movement (a “design singularity” of sorts), which promises to democratize and extend the means of design production to nearly everyone with interest. This movement, however, has significant implications for the profession of design, as the democratization of technologies prompts a questioning of the role of those who had previously (and exclusively) engaged with those technologies. If the conventional means of design production are made accessible to non-designers, then in what activities should the professional designer be engaged? As one potential response to this question, this contribution to Teaching Computational Creativity begins to establish an argument for developing design curricula that are “entirely code-based,” referring to the high degree to which code-relevant principles and activities inform the entirety of the design processes students are exposed to. Design and code are uniquely positioned for forming this curricular relationship, as they share a number of key core elements that would potentially enable the use of code as a medium for both teaching and executing design.

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