We are at a branch in our evolutionary path across the cosmos. The question is, what future do we want to design?
Traditionally, art schools and corporations were perceived as disparate entities, with one focusing on aesthetics and abstract thought, while the other emphasized profit and pragmatism. This was the era of separation, where art and business operated on parallel tracks, seldom converging. Companies sought efficiency, often at the cost of creativity. Art and design were isolated, seen through the narrow lens of galleries, museums and service.
The heated distance between institutions of art and design education and its customers grows — engulfing itself in hollow inclusion efforts, outrageous debt, siloed knowledge, dehumanizing metrics, and outdated curricula. Creative education in this era need no longer be confined to traditional institutions of education; education has been forever decoupled from institutional place.