{"id":745,"date":"2025-05-20T21:11:44","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T21:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.visible-language.org\/journal\/?p=745"},"modified":"2025-08-15T09:49:34","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T09:49:34","slug":"issue-59-1-a-shifting-practice-paradigm-meets-a-persistent-curriculum-paradigm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.visible-language.org\/journal\/issue-59-1-a-shifting-practice-paradigm-meets-a-persistent-curriculum-paradigm\/","title":{"rendered":"A Shifting Practice Paradigm Meets a Persistent Curriculum Paradigm"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"sitecontainer\">\n<div class=\"pagecontainer\">\n<article class=\"vj-article\">\n<div class=\"articlesidebar\">\n<h5>Issue 59.1<\/h5>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.visible-language.org\/journal\/issue-59-1-in-with-the-new\">Editorial \u2014 In With the New!<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.visible-language.org\/journal\/issue-59-1-making-design-research-visible\">Making Design Research Visible<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.visible-language.org\/journal\/issue-59-1-a-shifting-practice-paradigm-meets-a-persistent-curriculum-paradigm\">A Shifting Practice Paradigm Meets a Persistent Curriculum Paradigm<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.visible-language.org\/journal\/issue-59-1-digital-type-challenges\">Digital Type Challenges<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.visible-language.org\/journal\/issue-59-1-towards-interdisciplinary-juggling-similarities-and-differences\">Towards Interdisiplinary: Juggling Similarities and Differences<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.visible-language.org\/journal\/issue-59-1-nineteen-questions-to-evaluate-typographic-research-chaff-and-wheat\">Nineteen Questions to Evaluate Typographic Practice: Chaff and Wheat<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.visible-language.org\/journal\/issue-59-1-visible-language-evolves\">Visible Language Evolves<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.visible-language.org\/Issue-59-1\/Visible-Language-59-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Download Issue 59.1 \u27a4<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"articlecontent\">\n<h1>A Shifting Practice Paradigm Meets a Persistent Curriculum Paradigm<\/h1>\n<h3>Meredith Davis<\/h3>\n<h4>College of Design, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA (mjdavis[at]ncsu.edu)<\/h4>\n<div class=\"abstractbox\">\n<p><span class=\"smallblueheading\">Abstract:<\/span> There is little debate that the demands of professional design practice and design research today are significantly different from the 20th century when modern graphic and industrial design programs first entered liberal arts colleges and universities. Currently, there is much academic discourse regarding the new outcomes for which today\u2019s designers are accountable under an ongoing shift in the nature of professional practice. However, design cannot fully address a new practice paradigm if design educators do not also rethink a persistent curriculum paradigm from the industrial era. This article argues that new course outlines alone are insufficient in overcoming the implicit messages about design practice delivered through the historical structure and pedagogy of college and university design programs.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"keywordsbox\">\n<p><span class=\"smallblueheading\">Keywords:<\/span> colleges and universities; design curriculum; design education; design history<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a class=\"viewarticlebtn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.visible-language.org\/Issue-59-1\/a-shifting-practice-paradigm-meets-a-persistent-curriculum-paradigm.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Download PDF<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"articlepdfviewer\">\n<object data=\"https:\/\/www.visible-language.org\/Issue-59-1\/a-shifting-practice-paradigm-meets-a-persistent-curriculum-paradigm.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.visible-language.org\/Issue-59-1\/a-shifting-practice-paradigm-meets-a-persistent-curriculum-paradigm.pdf\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" style=\"border: none;\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><\/object>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"authorbox\">\n<p><span class=\"smallblueheading\">Author<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Meredith Davis<\/strong> is Emerita Distinguished Alumni Professor in the College of Design at North Carolina State University, where she served as Graphic Design department head and director of the PhD in Design program. She taught at the college level for 40 years, first at Virginia Commonwealth University and then at NC State. She is an AIGA Fellow and Medalist, Holladay Medalist, and NASAD Fellow. She served as president of the American Center for Design, co-authored the NASAD design accreditation standards, and conducted more than 100 curriculum reviews and consultations. She is the author of several books, including <em>Teaching Design<\/em>, and numerous articles, including the AIGA Design Futures Papers. She was principal in the firm Communication Design from 1979\u20131989.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a class=\"viewarticlebtn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.visible-language.org\/Issue-59-1\/a-shifting-practice-paradigm-meets-a-persistent-curriculum-paradigm.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Download PDF<\/a><br \/>\n<\/article>\n<div class=\"articlecitebox\">\n<div>\n<p class=\"blueurllink\">DOI being generated<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cite this article:<\/strong><br \/>Davis, M. (2025). A shifting practice paradigm meets a persistent curriculum paradigm. <em>Visible Language<\/em>, 59(1), 5\u201322. https:\/\/www.visible-language.org\/journal\/issue-59-1-a-shifting-practice-paradigm-meets-a-persistent-curriculum-paradigm<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>First published online April 27, 2025. \u00a9 2025 Visible Language \u2014 this article is open access, published under the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license.<\/p>\n<p><pre>https:\/\/www.visible-language.org\/journal<\/pre>\n<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"vlconsortiumheading\"><strong>Visible Language Consortium:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>University of Leeds (UK)<br \/>University of Cincinnati (USA)<br \/>North Carolina State University (USA)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Issue 59.1 Editorial \u2014 In With the New! 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