Meredith Davis Reaction

I basically found this reading a big waste of my time.  It seemed to me that the entire presentation was just whining haha.  No, I believe that what she was trying to get across is that the way we are teaching our students about design in most universities is mostly ineffective.  At least that is what I received from the presentation.  What she said was that students our introduced into design by first receiving the most basic of teachings such as line, form, color, etc.  Developed from there to creating form then to move on to strategy.  She wanted to change this I think, by giving students projects that involve a challenge to make things clear and meaningful, not making them simple, while understanding and managing complexity.  It would of been helpful to see images of what the students projects were of as well.  But it sounded much like what Luke is having up do with our second project of mapping out homelessness in Portland.
I couldn't find much on what the Visionary Design Council was that was mentioned in the speech.  I would of like to learn more but found some interesting bios on Meredith Davis.http://www.aiga.org/content.cfm/medalist-meredithdavis
A short reaction to Davis' Keynote.http://www.massagingmedia.org/keynote-address-meredith-davis