>>PERSPECTIVE II: ART ED TO TEACH DESIGN THINKING
PERSPECTIVE III: ART ED TO TEACH ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Important art, the kind worth spending years or decades learning to make, changes a target audience's attitudes or emotions. For instance, Picasso's paintings changed Gertrude Stein's feelings about herself. Buying his work made Stein feel important because she was a conspirator to Picasso's aesthetic revolution. She felt clever, ahead of the curve, privy to aesthetic sensibilities eluding her peers.
Triscuits packaging is important art too. Its designers trigger your associations to the mid-century Great Plains and the fresh ingredients you reflexively link to that setting. Design is always human-centered, always focused on flipping switches in a viewer's mind.
Seth Godin in Linchpin says school should do only two things:
(1) Teach students to solve interesting problems, and (2) teach students to lead.
A curriculum built around Design Thinking does both. Students solve