Trust and Relationship Building: Critical Skills for The Future of Design Education in Online Contexts
AbstractCould you trust someone you had never physically met to successfully collaborate with you on a design project?As online communication technologies rapidly evolve, the creative industries continue to move towards globally networked and interdisciplinary modalities of practice. These inescapable shifts in the ways designers work have challenged many long held assumptions about the nature of individual design processes.Such revolutionary changes mean that designers must increasingly master new skills to effectively communicate and collaborate in online environments with colleagues from different cultures, disciplines and locations world wide. Since they may never meet face to face, the success of this new working methodology relies on high levels of trust between practitioners, both personally and professionally in order to achieve effective design outcomes.In turn the need for design educators to equip students with skills to thrive in the face of this new industrial paradigm is highlighted. Trust i.