Re-imagining the Future of Design and Technology Education: Undoing a decade of decline

In England as an educational discipline Design and Technology is in disarray. Deliberations about the subject’s value and purpose within the core curriculum have taken place since its inception (Bell et al., 2017), however these debates have not been formalised by the subject’s community to create a solid research base and , in practice the subject’s vision has not ever been fully realised (Barlex, 2017). As the subject declines, so does the community of colleagues working within the field, and hence the potential to develop robust.\ud \ud If there is to be any hope of reversing the subject’s decline, we need to do something significant. Hence, considering the future of design and technology, the principal aim of this research is to investigate what a re-designed design and technology could look like.\ud \ud This poster presents part of the on-going work into the conversation which we hope will be used to commence the discussion around the future of Design and Technology, or its curriculum successor.