Thoughts on basic training for the design: relationships with research innovations

Abstract

If research, also in the technology field, produces interesting results, little attention has devoted to education and to the relationship between the first and the second. But the wealth of knowledge now available (even for web accessibility) is profoundly changing the approach to design and, therefore, to university education. This contribution is to open up a debate and to encourage a confrontation on this issue. One critical point concerns the alternation between the conceptualization and the experience throughout the process that must see the student as the protagonist: from first ideas up to the actual execution and to the expected life of what has been designed. This implies that we are favoring a complex approach to simple themes rather than the reverse.