Teaching Design for Change

I find this TED talk really interesting and inspiring about the Design in Education. Emily Pilloton, the speaker, presented her experience in integrating design not only into a school studio but into a whole rural community. She presented some interesting design principles and approaches that should be considered when designing for education and development.

The first is design for education and it refer to the intersection of the physical construction of the space and materials and the experiences for teachers and students. She implemented this principle through the design of Learning landscape where students play and learn in the school backyard.

The second approach is redesigning education itself in the sense of how education administrated, the services offered , and for whom. The last approach Pilloton and her company used is design with education, which means teaching design thinking using construction and fabrication tools to solve real community problems.

Also, she presented some design principles that I see fundamental for us to consider:

• Design through action
• Design with, not for
• Design systems not stuff
• Document, share, and measure
• Start locally, and scale globally