Design Education Manifesto
The Icograda Design Education Manifesto, a key legacy of Oullim, is a core document that defines the Council's position on design education. The Manifesto advocates that design education must be a learning-centred environment, enabling students to develop their potential in and beyond academic programs.
The 2009-2011 Icograda Executive Board resolved to mark the 10 anniversary with an update of the Manifesto. This update was intended to help steer design curriculum and equip faculty and students to handle current and future issues in design education. Its form and content addressed the participatory, social nature of academic exchange in today's online community, shaped by technological advances.
The Icograda Design Education Manifesto was developed in 2000 as collaboration by an international group of designers. Participants represented a geographically, politically, economically, culturally, and socially diverse cross section of the design education community. Prof. Ahn Sang-Soo (South Korea) led the project which was translated into seventeen languages and presented at the Icograda Millennium Congress Oullim 2000 Seoul.
2011 Manifesto UpdateThe 2009-2011 Icograda Executive Board resolved to mark the 10 anniversary with an update of the Manifesto. This update was intended to help steer design curriculum and equip faculty and students to handle current and future issues in design education. Its form and content addressed the participatory, social nature of academic exchange in today's online community, shaped by technological advances.
Icograda Design Education Manifesto (2011) [PDF] - 11037KB
The Icograda Design Education Manifesto 2011 is presented in 6 languages accompanied by 22 expert essays in a printed publication on the 24th October 2011 in Taipei (Taiwan) at the IDA Congress.
Icograda Design Education Manifesto (2000) [PDF] - 8008KB
Published on the occasion of the Icogarda Millennium Congress: "Oullim", Seoul