Teaching the Designer Chapter 1. Before Schools

This season finale explores the qualities future designers will need in an age of artificial intelligence, environmental responsibility, and global uncertainty, asking what design education should prepare us for next.

This episode explores how globalisation, cultural exchange, and digital technologies have transformed design education, preparing designers to work across cultures, disciplines, and international boundaries.

This episode explores how the Bauhaus transformed design education by uniting art, craft, technology, and experimentation, creating a legacy that continues to shape design schools worldwide.

This episode explores how the design studio became the heart of architectural education, teaching students through projects, critique, experimentation, and reflective practice rather than knowledge transmission alone.

This episode explores how academies transformed architectural learning by organising knowledge into formal curricula, helping establish design as a discipline that could be taught systematically.

This episode explores how books transformed design education by allowing architectural knowledge to travel across generations, creating shared intellectual traditions that extended beyond workshops and individual teachers.

This episode explores how the architect emerged as a distinct professional figure, transforming design from a craft tradition into a specialised form of knowledge.

This episode explores how drawing transformed design education by allowing ideas to be imagined, represented, discussed, and taught before they were ever built.

This episode explores how workshops functioned as humanity’s earliest design classrooms, where knowledge was transmitted through apprenticeship, practice, collaboration, and learning by doing.

This episode explores how design knowledge was transmitted long before formal education existed, revealing teaching as a fundamental human activity rooted in observation, practice, and collective experience.