Different topic than usually. From today on, were I transfered my contribution to the student union of the University Wuppertal, I am official PhD-Student in the Industrial Design Department of the University Wuppertal, supervised by Prof. Dr. Brigitte Wolf. And why do I write this here? Because I want my thoughts to be public and discussed from the very beginning on. I want to use the options the web provides.
The topic is “Creativity and Dogma”. Creativity as a tool to detect and to solve problems. Dogma as a set of rules or actions we are used to, that prevents that we can act in a more appropriate way. The definitions have to be sharpend during the process. The question will also be, how much dogma we need to be able to think.
Why PhD? Well, generally I have a deep distrust against experts. Or people who think they are experts. Especially in the field of design, as a designer needs knowledge from different fields and a broad overview about almost everything. The designer needs this to be able to be creative and to be able to act acoording to or against the currents or upcoming trends. But… there is a problem. The new quality criteria after BA and MA is not experience, but the PhD.
So I spent some nights asking myself what I am supposed to do. And I came up with the decision, that I might in a better position to argue against or for the PhD in the field of Design, once I would have the PhD and nobody could say that I am just envious. And the topic is as broad as it can be at the start. But still I am afraid that I will loose myself in the dangerous sea of expertise. It means to take care. And so we go…