Dezeen teamed up with Salone del Mobile to live stream a talk on design education today.
Dezeen's collaboration with Salone del Mobile will see us live stream a panel discussion in its Open Talks series, curated by Maria Cristina Didero, every day this week during Supersalone.
The first talk to kick off the programme was a panel discussion on design education and included architectural historian Beatriz Colomina, curator Aric Chen and professor of Design and Social Inquiry at Parsons School of Design in New York Anthony Dunne.
Architectural historian Beatriz Colomina will join the panel
The panel discussed their perspectives on design education and the pressing topics and issues that are facing a new generation of designers.
Titled Who can say no to education", the talk will be moderated by the head of Master Theory at ECAL in Lausanne, Anniina Koivu. Also joining the panel from Milan is curator Aric Chen. Photo by Yoha Jin.
Colomina is an architectural historian and the founding director of the Media and Modernity programme at Princeton University, and professor and director of Graduate Studies in the School of Architecture. She has written numerous books on architectural history, including Sexuality and Space, and Domesticity at War.
Chen is an independent curator and writer based in Shanghai, where he works as the director of the Curatorial Lab at the College of Design and Innovation at Tongji University.
He is also the curatorial director for Design Miami and was...