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3 October 2024

Hortopia II —Qualitäten des Träumens

Bild oben: Detail aus dem Oudolf Garten auf dem Vitra Campus, Weil am Rhein, Jan Eckert, 2023 «Im Zentrum des Gartens stehen die unkontrollierten Kräfte..

publications

14 April 2024

Blowing up the Alps

When María Gonzáles de Cossío first contacted me in August 2023, it was both a surprise and an honour to be invited to contribute a..

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6 January 2024

Hortopia I

Titelbild: In Brunos Weinberg gibt es keine Mauern, sondern eine Koexistenz zwischen den Lebewesen, Wolxheim, Alsace, 2023, Jan Eckert Download an English version of this..

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29 August 2023

Active Intuition

It’s been some time, since I last wrote on my blog and, mostly, this is due to my new job at the Swiss Centre for..

17 December 2021

Stewardship in Design

The title and content of our first academic paper published together with my Phd colleague Marco Mason was «From Social Relevances towards Design Isses» (Eckert,..

publications

10 December 2021

Extending the New European Bauhaus by Reframing Education

In 2020, the European Commission announced the launch of a New European Bauhaus aiming at collaborations between the world of art and design and the..

10 December 2021

Challenges of Issue-based Education and Cross-Institutional Collaboration

Addressing real-world issues in research and education often extends into complex clusters of cross-institutional collaborations. Examples for such issues are the UN Sustainable Development Goals..

research

13 November 2021

Design at the Dawn of new Pedagogies

There is a lot being written and said about the transformative power of Design in the context of complex problem solving. Initiatives such as the..

26 July 2021

Humanising Education through Design

Shorter half-life of knowledge and skills urges today’s learners to give up linear learning paths and engage in non-linear lifelong learning. Even our recent shift..

18 February 2021

Design Education Talks

Thanks to Lefteris Emmanuel Heretakis for inviting me to join his initiative at the New Art School and be part of a series of podcasts..

15 November 2020

Why designers need to learn how to collaborate.

In a recent keynote at Valencia Design Education Forum IBM Design Director Karel Vredenburg pointed out the fact that many design graduates fall short when..

positions

11 November 2020

Leading Digital Transformation and the Green Transition

Back in September 2020, the president of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen announced her initiative to tackle the challenges of the «twin» digital..

24 October 2020

Moving the Conversation to the Schools

On October 7, Part II of a great series of panels on Design Education took place and it was my pleasure being part of it..

publications

20 October 2020

Why Design Schools Should Take the Lead in Design Education

Thanks to our Editors Daniel Raposo, João Neves, José Silva, we published a book named «Perspective on Design». It is a volume that reports on..

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