ABSTRACT
This study uses the changing landscape of instructional design from about 1970 to show why training that includes studio experience is becoming a new imperative. I describe four historical stages in the evolution of the designer’s working environment to illustrate how design has acquired more of a social aspect than ever before. Today’s emerging views of design are more likely to take into account how expert designers think and how teams work together collaboratively. In a changed professional world, studio training has become a new standard: one that supplies many of the intangible skills that can no longer be taken for granted.
