Designing matters; designing minds: The importance of nurturing the designerly in young people

Design education, at face value, is often seen as being vocational – that it is about educating the next generation of designers. But all humans are ‘designerly’ by nature. We have a predisposition to envision and create new future realities in a way that has been described as an intrinsic and defining characteristic of being human and that is vital for cultural evolution. It is a capability that exists as innate potential.

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