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ART, DESIGN AND ENVIRONMENTAL PARTICIPATION
research connected to the development and legitimation of art and design
as a subject for the future. This must be seen in the context of cultural
diversity, visual culture and the communicative role of artefacts in social
and environmental development.
The ethical aspects of consumption will probably be even more evident
for art and design education in the future. A sustainable development
within culture, environment and communities will need qualified users and
decision-makers. Environmental participation presupposes knowledge on a
broad scale, including the interpretation of visual representations.
Comments to the list of publications
The Norwegian list of publication is divided into five parts: doctoral theses,
books, chapters in books, articles and reports. The selection is done at
discretion, being quite aware of that some titles could have been included
and some excluded. But the line has to be drawn somewhere.
The theses listed are first of all based on the criteria of being written by
practising art and design educators; or they were given attention and were
widely read in the art and design education community. The same can be
said about the books and chapters listed. As mentioned earlier, the relative
high number of chapters in books can be explained by the fact that there
has been a limited number of research based periodicals in Nordic languages.
Researchers therefore publish their writings in edited books. The number
of articles listed is not low, but it contains articles that normally will not be
listed as research. Still, there is a reason why they are presented here – that
is because they are documentations for important debates. Textbooks, M.A.
theses that have not been published for sale, and articles in FORM describing
educational practises, are excluded from the list.
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