How pandemic accelerates change in design education

Design has offered diverse avenues to alter and better understand the way in which we perceive not only education but the very world we inhabit. It provides an opportunity for a learning environment that encourages students to find answers through logical thinking, practical reasoning and asking the right questions. This enabled a complete paradigm shift that has allowed for what can be called a technological breakthrough across various fields. This evolution of the virtual space has monumentally complemented the development and growth of design education.

Blended learning and hybrid education has become the new way ahead. This could not provide for a better platform for ushering changes within the field of design education. The advancements in technology, the varied online tools and softwares and the newfound approach to education has enabled the discipline of design to thrive. Today the focus is largely on experimenting, problem solving and creating for a sustainable, ethical and technology driven world - principles that have always governed the field of design. The pandemic meant that students were exposed to an education of a unique kind, one that cajole them to think beyond what they had been familiar with up until now in order to design solutions for the new kinds of problems and challenges that the current world presented them with.

Here’s the article published on THE HANS INDIA Dr. Jitin Chadha - Founder & CEO, IIAD about “How pandemic accelerates change in design education”
https://www.thehansindia.com/hans/young-hans/how-pandemic-accelerates-change-in-design-education-739037