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Endings and Beginnings

The publication of this final issue of the journal for 2019 comes at a very sad time for many of us involved in design education as it coincides with the death of Ken Baines, one of the pioneers of design education in schools and a lasting inspiration to many readers and contributors to this Journal and its predecessors. In this Issue’s Reflection, Eddie Norman, Editor of the Journal from 2005-2015 pays tribute to Ken’s massive contribution to design and technology education, along with a tribute from Niall Seery and Donal Canty whose research group built so much of its foundation on working with Ken and on his writing. For both those that did and didn’t know Ken, these tributes combine to present understandings of who Ken was and how and why he has been such an inspiration for over fifty years. Adding a personal note, Ken was a particularly important person for Kay, having become a role-model, unofficial mentor and guiding light when she studied with him at the Royal College of Art in the Design Education Unit, beginning her formation as a design education researcher and enabling the development of her foundational thinking on the importance for humanity of design capability and its development through education. Very little that Kay has done as an educator, researcher and writer doesn’t bear witness with this either implicitly through her philosophy and thinking or explicitly through extensive citation of Ken’s own writings. He will be missed, but his contribution lives on through the impact he has and continues to have on others.