I just had this idea. In education we have lots of opportunities for students to gain access to professional practice to prepare them for professional life: coops & internship abound.
What we don’t have are ways for faculty to stay engaged in practice that is sustainable, feasable & practical.
Sonny idea is to take advantage of the huge off time that many educators have & to pair them with industry opportunities during that time. Faculty cooperatives would be great, no?
Is anyone interested in beginning an experiment with this? I’m particularly interested in work being done in design for social change outside of sustainability efforts.
Thoughts?
Brad Berkner | 06-Feb-10 at 12:06 pm | Permalink
I’m the Coordinator of Interactive Media (a hybrid position between educator and project lead) at Elon University and what you have proposed sounds very interesting. Feel free to contact me. (also ignore my website it is really out of date)
best,
Brad
Maggie Hendrie | 11-Feb-10 at 4:56 pm | Permalink
Teaching UX and Interaction Design to product designers at OTIS in LA, I’d like to collaboarte with other educators who also develop projects in industry
cheers
Maggie