An invitation to strengthen future arts and design education

Written By Dorothée King

Being alive means being creative. We are makers. Arts and design are means to consciously co-create the world, to re-visit and question present systems, to propose new solutions and to offer community participation. I am grateful to have had the opportunity to spent years learning, teaching, celebrating (and also fighting for) education in arts and design worldwide. We assume, as a reader of this blog, you have your own reasons to be interested in and moved by education in arts and design. I invite you to reconnect to your experiences and motivations in the context of learning in arts and design. Together let’s start a power-force to grow arts and design education in the future.

1. List three (or more) well-designed objects that improve your daily life

2. List three (or more) activities that you enjoyed doing today that would not be possible without art and design education.

3. Remember your first time at an arts or design museum. How did it smell? What did you look at? How did you feel?

4. Imagine a school without any art and education? How would that school look like?

5. Remember an encounter with a teacher of arts or design in school or college. What did you learn from this person (positive or negative)?

6. How did this relationship change your relationship to arts and design?