DEFSA Conferences

Design Educators and design professionals throughout South Africa are invited to attend this multi-faceted design event which takes place annually.

The programme usually spans two days. The first day is devoted to invited papers by well known personalities on topical design related issues. The second day focuses on design educators' discussions. There is ample opportunity for educators to interact with colleagues from other institutions, identify new design trends in education and to plan strategically for the future.

2007
"FLUX: Design Education in a Changing World"
3rd and 5th of October 2007
Cape Peninsula University of Technology

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2006
"Redesigning Design Education"
21 and 22 September 2006
Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, Port Elizabeth

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2005
"Design Education in a Creative Economy"
22-23 September 2005
SA Reserve Bank Conference Centre, Pretoria

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2004
"Developing Design Leadership for Africa"

The 2004 DEFSA Conference broke away from the traditional approach of design educators talking to one another. The focus was on strategic stakeholders talking to educators about their requirements and views on design leadership and clients of design.

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2002
Design, Research and Development
Hosted by Technikon Free State in association with
Cranford Conference Co-ordinators

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2001
Mapping New Territiories in Design Education
Hosted by Technikon Pretoria, Technikon Witwatersrand,
University of Pretoria and Vaal Triangle Technikon2000

2000
Reshaping South Africa by Design
Hosted by the Faculty of the Built Environment and Design
at the Cape Technikon