Our proposal, Mapping the Design Space of Design Education in iSchools, was accepted as a Wildcard Session at the iConference, the (nearly) annual iSchools conference. Wildcards are supposed to be an opportunity to try something new in a conference setting, which is an opportunity we are trying to take full advantage of.

To this end, we have set up some electronic infrastructure to support our planning activities, and hopefully to keep persistent the conversation we hope to begin during the conference. Currently, this infrastructure includes:

• Design Edcuation Wiki
• Design Ed Google Group

Please check it out, sign up for accounts, and feel free to add content and/or send messages. As we update the site, we will occasionally post here with news.

In general, what we are trying to accomplish is to have a brainstorming session where we apply techniques which we have found useful for the other kinds of design activities we engage in, and apply them to the topic of Design Education. We hope that by doing this we will both be able to identify the accent with iSchools bring to design endeavors, as well as ideas for how to teach design more effectively (or at all) in iSchools.

We just submitted a proposal for the iConference to organize a WildCard session about teaching design, design practice, and design thinking in iSchools. A copy of the proposal can be found here