Teaching Co-Creation Now by NextDesign Futures Library

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NextD Teaching Co-creation Now Moving Beyond the Teach Each Other Model New York, 2011

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As challenges facing the world grow more complex, more co-creation across disciplines is needed.

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Most (not all) design educators have no specific training in cross-disciplinary co-creation.

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Many design educators know a lot about Design 1 and Design 2 methods.

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Today many students seek to engage at the scale of organizations and societies.

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In many design schools (and other schools), the typical way of teaching team-based co-creation skills is to hand out a team assignment and expect the students to teach themselves.

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Much of the logic being used around how to teach team-based co-creation is a direct reflection of the way that the instructors learned themselves.

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Teach Each Other is often being mistaken for, or sold as, Learning by Doing

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Teach Each Other ≠ Learning by Doing NextD

Learning by Doing = Learning by Doing NextD

Teach Each Other = No Codified Knowledge Present NextD

Typically there are no visible orchestration tools, or instruments present in design school teaching of cross-disciplinary co-creation.

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Many students emerge from the Teach Each Other experience assuming that is what teamwork is, never wanting to engage in teamwork again.

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The Teach Each Other Model has, for many years, resulted in skills that are not competitive in a marketplace where now many seek leadership of design.

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Many design educators continue to advocate the Teach Each Other Model.

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Many graduate and postgraduate education leaders, continue to see and acknowledge no issues in need of attention around cross-disciplinary co-creation skill-building.

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