Design of Education as Education in Design; De-stratifying Fields and Subjects.

The complexity of the problems we are faced with today needs to be addressed in a holistic and integrated way, rather than being portrayed as a highly stratified system of seemingly nonrelated fields and sciences. Artists and designers can envision and design a future that could be more adapted to this ‘relationality’ of the world, yet it demands a different mind-set in order to unlock that potential. Education in design is also about the design of education, and that is why we need to de-stratify fields and its subjects. The awareness amongst designers and design-educators rises that property related thinking (what something is), is rapidly losing ground to types of stability based on ‘relationality’ (what something can (re)do). This calls for a shift in (educational) perspective from an extensive hierarchy to an ontologically flat intensive thinking. This paper hands three instruments to start with.