The Next Billion Seconds...

This is a collaborative research project between Kieran McDonald, a tutor at Sheffield Hallam University and 3 other design students across different disciplines. Working as a design educator, Kieran was not satisfied and set out to question higher education within Art & Design and started this research project. His existing research considers potential ways to appropriately integrate and enhance learning spaces holistically so that future graduates can thrive in this environment. In this case, the future graduates are a reference to the closer future but also the distant future of the next billion seconds, that being the year of 2050. We were introduced because he needed us, students, to offer guidance and insight to provide a platform and framework to disseminate in the higher education community. The shifts in pedagogy, utilisation of space, technology, and cultures have the potential for transformation. The project reflects on research scoping on different design schools across the world, gathering staff and student perspectives.