The document provides a critical review of the design education received at a world renowned design school. It summarizes that the school focuses more on competition and maximizing existing capabilities rather than teaching new knowledge. Additionally, tutors provide shallow involvement and are not always persuasive or strong leaders. The school exhausts students with disordered projects without enough research time and lacks core design knowledge, instead giving different situations to solve. Overall, the education trains students as quick design engineers but not as capable design thinkers able to change the world, which does not meet the reviewer's expectations for the world's best design school.

17. “World’s best design
school teaching design
thinking.”

18. 「史上最難申請進入的鼎鼎
大名英國皇家藝術學院」

37. GUERILLA
LONDON
2011

41. EXPERIMENT
AL
DESIGN

52. DISRUPTIVE
MARKET
INNOVATION

58. DESIGN
ENTERPRISE

62. ACROSS_RCA

66. SUPERFORM

77. I’LL TAKE 9

88. ECOVER Mouse trap?

97. COMMERCIAL
PROJECT
Rio Tinto Sports Innovation Challenge

105. GIZMO

110. GoGLOBAL
RCA x IC x KAIST (Korean Advanced Institute of Science &
Technology)

141. It’s more like a competition. You are not there to learn
knowledge but to maximize and exert your capabilities
to compete with others based on what you have
already known and built.

143. They just don’t teach you knowledge but share their
thoughts when you tutorialize with them. Some tutors
are like dropping by the studio with very shallow
involvements, and some are just not persuasive or
strong enough to lead you.

145. They lead disorderly. They give you project exercises
to exhaust you without giving you enough time to
conduct deep research.

147. They don’t have core knowledge (or say know-how) in
terms of their design education. They just give you
different types of set situations in each module and ask
you to figure out and propose solutions.
It’s more like squeezing your brain and training you to
become a quick and productive design engineer, but
less like making you a design thinker equipped with
sufficient capabilities to “change the world”.

149. In sum, it’s not what I have expected in terms of
learning design/design thinking @ the world’s best
design school.