Updating Values. Perspectives on Design Education
includes the proceedings of the International Symposium
Updating Values – FutureDesignEd 2020 held in
San Marino on January 16-17, 2020.
FutureDesignEd is an academic research project
promoted by the University of Bologna Design
Programmes, the aim of which is to observe the
ongoing transformation of design education through
the involvement of a community of international
observers. The volume aims to further the discourse
on “educational values” in the field of design.
From Piero Formica’s “creative ignorance” to Alice
Twemlow’s reflection upon the “human, post-human,
and more-than-human”, from Audrey G. Bennett’s
educational model to Juan Salamanca’s framework
of responsible innovation, a plurality of different
viewpoints emerges.
All of them converged in the Manifesto of Updating
Values – FutureDesignEd 2020, which identifies twelve
values we believe are the core of design and design
education, the cornerstones of a lifelong process of
learning and personal and professional growth: aware of
the past, open to the future, and engaged with the world.