It seems to me that there are at least three responses from design schools to the current crisis: position product design as a business(week)-friendly, innovation-focused process (IIT and Stanford); focus on research rather than form making and align it with other humanities disciplines (Hunt); or take the art-school route epitomized by the Royal College of Art, in London, and Cranbrook Academy of Art, which have reputations for critical thinking and producing sexy imagery of objects--often more hypothetical than manufacturable.Read entire article. Thanks Jason!
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Why depend on the stars? Because often, a great problem solution by a designer is not given the backing by the people with the money to make it happen.