Questions

The more I try and solidify what my manifesto is really about, the more ideas I seem to be creating!

Currently I am asking as many CCDN graduates, or tutors or teachers their viewpoint to try and illustrate my points.

My question revolves around a random person asking them what they do, and if they say a designer, or I study design, or whatever, and the random person follows up with "cool what kind of Design" and then they get into the point of explaining what CCDN is and this is when the random then asks what they think they will do with that, or what they will get into....

the answers have been interesting.

One being that to avoid having to get into a big dicussion where tey try to explain CCDN, they instead use their more well known minor, and say "Im an industrial designer"

One being the classic, (which I am so used to hearing) "I dont know"

and one being " Im a designer". "If someone was going to try and give me a label I would leave it there, if they pushed for more I would say Graphic and Publication design".

So a theme is quickly developing among culture and context graduates and teachers that avoiding ccdn is easier than trying to explain it to someone who doesnt know much about design. People like to put other people in boxes and once they can define it, they are happy to move on, however defining CCDN is hard. It's an ambiguous degree for a reason.

Anyway, I will continue with my researcing and also with my trying to define exactly what I am trying to say. I keep coming back to the beginning which was , that we didnt really know what CCDN is going in (other than the more theory based design course of the three) and we don't really know what it is coming out. But we do, it's just hard to explain.

Trying to write my book/guide will hopefully solidify things. Man I m going to have a busy weekend!