Recently I have been giving much thought to the structure and issues that most of us in Higher Education have been struggling with for several years. There are three areas of thought that come together when re-imagining education, particularly within Art and Design education. The theory of the Long Tail, the Play Ethic and Cradle to Cradle sustainability. Each of these requires a radical turn-around in current ways of thinking. Tweaking the edges won’t do. What if we thought about education the same way we thought about our other precious resources or the same way that we think about the changing face of the media? The full post is quite a long essay, but it covers a lot of ground…