Research for design education: some topics

In advanced industrialised companies, knowledge has become one of the main productive strengths. Universities have always been and continue to be big organisations aimed on one hand at the growth of knowledge through research and, on the other, its dissemination through training. This is why the training education process, with the relative methods, dynamics and specifi c phenomenology has, for some time now, been the focus of the obvious interest of the world of research which, from activities aimed at corroborating the contents of education, also becomes an activity aimed at questioning the forms and models of education. This recognitive contribution intends to propose a refl ection – starting with the experience of managing educational processes matured at the Department of Design of Milan Polytechnic – with regard to certain macro-issues relating to the practices of education on the project around which new research interest and new experimentations are developing.