René Spitz
Design education needs to change radically. This is a major outcome of an international research project on the future of design education. What is done at design schools and how it is done is not what is needed. A second outcome: Because reality is changing so dramatically, so dynamic and fast, we have to move fast, too. We have to change design education now. If we want to transform the world we live in into the world we want to live in we need to re-design design education.
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René Spitz
Professor at the Rheinische Fachhochschule (RFH) Cologne, University of Applied Sciences
Member of the Board of the iF Design Foundation
René Spitz works as a professor at the Rheinische Fachhochschule (RFH) in Cologne, Germany. He is a member of the senate and heads the media design program.
As a researcher, he is concerned with the future of design education. He conducted an international study on this topic for the iF Design Foundation, which was published in 2021. In addition, he deals with the social responsibility of designers, the Ulm School of Design (HfG), and the fundamentals of design in numerous books and articles.
René Spitz is a member of the board of the iF Design Foundation. He regularly participates in review processes for The Design Journal. From 2004 to 2007 he was chairman of the advisory board of the International Design Forum (IFG) Ulm.
He has curated numerous international conferences and exhibitions on design in Europe and Asia. He has published more than 430 articles on design at WDR, Europe's largest public broadcaster.
From 1988 to 1991 Spitz worked with Otl Aicher for his client durst, Brixen (Italy).
In 1997, he completed his studies in communication science, German language and literature, and history with a thesis on the political history of the Hochschule für Gestaltung (HfG) Ulm.