PRACTICING DESIGN:


Rethinking Design Education Conference was intended to disseminate results of conducted analyses of the first phase of the project and to present and inform all relevant stakeholders about Rethinking Education Study as well as to get their feedback. The two-day conference took place in Skopje (May 19 – 20, 2016) in front of international and national experts and public. 

Rethinking Design Education Conference photos.

Video materials: 

IMPORTANCE OF DESIGN AND INTERNATIONALIZATION

PRACTICING DESIGN PROJECT OBJECTIVES AND RESEARCH RESULTS

RETHINKING DESIGN EDUCATION FOR THE 21ST CENTURY

EU POLICY ON DESIGN EDUCATION

RETHINKING DESIGN EDUCATION FOR THE 21ST CENTURY

SOCIOECONOMIC CONTEXT OF DESIGN IN THE 21ST CENTURY

FUTURE CHALLENGES AND RECOMMENDATIONS FOR DESIGN EDUCATION

DESIGN EDUCATION:  LEARNING BY DOING

 

RETHINKING DESIGN EDUCATION CONFERENCE

MAY 19 – 20, 2016 / SKOPJE

 

MAY 19, 2016

PUBLIC ROOM – CENTRE FOR DESIGN AND INNOVATION

Public Room Skopje,
50 Divizija 22, 1000 Skopje, Macedonia,
www.publicroom.org.
+389 2 6092650,
contact@publicroom.org

17:00 – 17:30  

Registration

Importance of design and internationalization
H.e. Ms. Danijela Barišić, Ambassador, Croatian Embassy in Skopje
Mr. Borce Nikolovskistate counselor for European Integration, Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Macedonia

18:00 – 19:00

Practicing Design: Rethinking Design Education Study
Project Objectives and Research Results

Aleksandar Velinovski, director, Public Room Skopje
Ivana Borovnjak, president, Croatian Designers Association
Severin Filek, professor, board member of BEDA, lecturer at various Austrian universities, managing director designaustria

Practicing Design: Rethinking Design Education for the 21st century
Theoretical framework of the Study

Biserka Komnenić, professor, Business College of Applied Studies, Novi Sad

19:00 – 19:30

Croatian experience after Europian qualification framework
on Design Education

Maja Jukić, director, National Centre for External Evaluation of Education, Croatia

19:30

Questions and answers

20:00

Reception

 

MAY 20, 2016
FACULTY OF DESIGN AT THE EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY, SKOPJE

European University Skopje, Bulevar Kliment Ohridski 68, 1000 Skopje,
www.eurm.edu.mk

09:00

Registration

09:30 – 11:00

Socio-economic context of Design in the 21st Century
(5 – 7 minutes presentations followed by debate)
Moderator: Severin Filek

Welcome

Participants:
Jana Maneva Cuposka, dean, Faculty of Art and Design, EURM, Skopje, Lidija Naumovska, rector, Faculty of Art and Design, EURM, Skopje, Marta Naumovska Grnarova, director, Zavar Company, Skopje, Iva Šilović, project manager, Prostoria d.o.o., Zagreb, Gerhard Schlattl, Austrian Federal Economic Chamber, Danijela Domljan, professor, Faculty of Forestry, Department of Furniture and Wood Products, University of Zagreb, Gordana Ćorić, professor, University of Applied Sciences VERN’, Zagreb

Debate

11:00

Coffee break

11:30 – 13:00

Design Education: Learning by doing
Implementation of practice in Design Curricula

(5 – 7 minutes presentations followed by debate)
Moderator: Ivana Borovnjak

Participants:
Damir Bralić, assistant professor, independent expert, Zagreb, Gordana Vrencoska, professor, Faculty of Art and Design, EURM Skopje, Pero Mrnarević, assistant professor, Academy of Fine Arts, University of Zagreb, Ledian Bregasi, professor, Faculty of Architecture and Design, Polis University, Tirana, Jelena Matić, professor, Faculty of Furniture and Interior Design, Department of technology, management and design of furniture and wood products, University of Belgrade

13:00 – 14:00

Lunch break

14:00 – 15:30

Future challenges and recommendations for Design Education
(5 – 7 minutes presentations followed by discussion)
Moderator: Gordana Ćorić
Biserka Komnenić, professor, Business College of Applied Studies, Novi Sad, Martin Foessleitner, managing director High-performance Vienna, lecturer at Sigmund Freund Private University Vienna and Donau-Universität Krems, Raya Stefanova, artistic director, One Design Week Plovdiv, Antonino Di Raimo, dean, Faculty of Architecture and Design, Polis University Tirana

15:30 – 16:00

Questions and answers

16:00

Memo for cooperation with EURM, Skopje

17:00

Round tour at the Faculty of Arts and Design at EURM

 

PROJECT PARTNERS

Austria

designaustria

Croatia

Croatian Designers Association
VERN’ University of Applied Sciences
Prostoria d.o.o.

Macedonia

Public Room Skopje
Faculty of Art and Design, European University in Skopje
Zavar Company d.o.o.