excellence in postgraduate education dr ashley hall, innovation design engineering – may 2014...

Excellence in postgraduate educationDr Ashley Hall, Innovation Design Engineering – May 2014ashley.hall@rca.ac.uk

AnimationArchitectureCeramics & GlassCommunication Art & Design ConservationCritical & Historical Studies Critical Writing in Art & DesignCurating Contemporary ArtDesign InteractionsDesign ProductsFashion Menswear Fashion WomenswearGlobal Innovation DesignGoldsmithing, Silversmithing, Metalwork & JewelleryHistory of DesignInformation Experience DesignInnovation Design EngineeringPainting PhotographyPrintmakingSculptureService DesignTextilesVehicle Design

24 Masters & PhD programmes

All postgraduate1340 students

Hyde Park

Royal College of Art

Imperial College London

Royal Albert HallRoyal College of Music

Natural History Museum

Science Museum

Victoria and Albert Museum

Helen Hamlyn, Innovation RCA

1851 Commission

Our local partners in ‘Albertopolis’

• Practice based ¾ staff in practice• Global postgraduate education• Does not have an undergrad

programme +/-• Commercial connections• Graduate network• Open regulation to cope with

emerging thinking and new developments

RCA

• 2 year Dual MA (RCA) & MSc (Imperial)

• Global• Multi-disciplinary• Group learning• Non-Linear• Context setting• Permission giving• Output: Producers of Innovation

Innovation Design Engineering

IDE 34 YEARS 1980 – 2014

iCross-disciplinary

30 years agoTeaching design to engineers

tInter-disciplinary

15 years ago Engineering Design

mTrans-disciplinary

2-3 years agoMultiple disciplines

Evolution of the IDE Programme

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CULTURAL DIVERSITY

STUDENT BACKGROUNDS 2014: 20 countries and 15

disciplines

DISCIPLINARY DIVERSITY

…I want to be a designer who has not been designed…IDE 2012 Entrance exam candidate

Individual Journeys

…on my electrical engineering degree I was the best in my department [Imperial] by a way, and our department was one of the best anywhere. Then I came here and I’m average…at best…Steffan Dziewski-Smith 2009

Transformations

Global & Disciplinary Diversity Challenge

Analysing module inputs

Hall, A. & Childs, P., 2009, Innovation Design Engineering: Non-linear Progressive Education for Diverse Intakes, E&PDE, University of Brighton, UK, pp. 312-7.

3D Education Model

Hall, A. & Childs, P., 2009, Innovation Design Engineering: Non-linear Progressive Education for Diverse Intakes, E&PDE, University of Brighton, UK, pp. 312-7.

Non Linear Progressive Education

Hall, A. & Childs, P., 2009, Innovation Design Engineering: Non-linear Progressive Education for Diverse Intakes, E&PDE, University of Brighton, UK, pp. 312-7.

GID: Transnational Education

2 year Dual MA/MScLondon: RCA & ImperialNew York: PrattTokyo: Keiohttp://globalinnovationdesign.org

• Continued emergence of new masters programs from the tradition industrial design area: service design, experience design, systems design, Etc.

• Thoughts on the post-disciplinarity landscape:

• Digital technologies lowering barriers• Blurring traditional disciplinary outputs• Disciplinary specificity fading• Programs identified by design approach rather than

outputs.

• On the horizon: Hybrid education-incubation models

Future