{"id":80,"date":"2017-04-08T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-08T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bobvanvliet.com\/notes\/?p=80"},"modified":"2021-06-02T13:14:08","modified_gmt":"2021-06-02T11:14:08","slug":"study-practice-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bobvanvliet.com\/notes\/study-practice-read\/","title":{"rendered":"Study \/ Practice \/ Read"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I studied design at university. Or did I? You don&#8217;t really &#8220;study&#8221; design. You practice it. So perhaps I should say that I <em>trained<\/em> as a designer. Or even that I <em>was<\/em> trained in design.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Is this analogous to how the British say that they &#8220;read&#8221; philosophy or history at university? Reading history, learning its contents, is different from training to become a historian, able to add something to the field.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Come to think of it, is this what is happening in the master &#8220;Design Curating &amp; Writing&#8221; at the design academy in Eindhoven, and at the MFA &#8220;Products of design&#8221; in New York? These students seem more to &#8220;read&#8221; design than to practice design ability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I studied design at university. Or did I? You don&#8217;t really &#8220;study&#8221; design. You practice it. So perhaps I should say that I trained as a designer. Or even that I was trained in design. Is this analogous to how the British say that they &#8220;read&#8221; philosophy or history at university? Reading history, learning its &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bobvanvliet.com\/notes\/study-practice-read\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Study \/ Practice \/ Read<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[17,2],"class_list":["post-80","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","tag-design-as-an-academic-discipline","tag-design-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobvanvliet.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobvanvliet.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobvanvliet.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobvanvliet.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobvanvliet.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobvanvliet.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobvanvliet.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions\/81"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobvanvliet.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobvanvliet.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobvanvliet.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}