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Digital gardens with real toads in them: the place of heritage media in a digital art and design education.
  At a time when digital media is regarded as orthodoxy in education, in advanced global economies there is a pressing argument to review the lessons of the past and reflect on whether they are still applicable. This paper will enquire into today’s issues with digital practices in art and design education using relevant, historical examples from the main changes in approach of the last century. It will also explain how the changes of approach to art and design education has affected the choice of materials, the stress on different skills and the values of different creative arts within the subject. From a position as a practitioner in the moving image, and in response to this autoethnographic research, the author puts forward a pluralist approach to teaching design, through a hybrid of particular aspects of ‘heritage’ and digital practices.

  • Date:

    23 April 2013

  • Publication Status:

    Published

  • Publisher

    ABM-media as c/o Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences

  • Dewey Decimal Classification:

    776 Computer art (Digital art)

Citation

Macdonald, I. (2013). Digital gardens with real toads in them: the place of heritage media in a digital art and design education. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference for Design Education Researchers, 577-589. ISBN 978-82-93298-01-4

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Keywords

design education; drawing; digital; hybrid practices; motion graphics;

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