If you were to visit the College of Design at NC State, what you would find is a community of students and educators involved in the process of design education and committed to improving the public realm through collaborative design. You would also find people committed to questioning how things are done and actively involved in the process of redefining design education as appropriate for today and tomorrow. The school is young and wishes to stay that way, but it is not the youth that can be measured by time that matters here. It is the youth of constant scientific curiosity and the youth of freshness that is constantly traced to its sources in nature that the School will try to preserve.
Design education is more than an attempt to teach a set of technical skills.
The aim of all design curricula in the College of Design is to develop the designer s perception, knowledge, skills, problem solving, and problem-seeking, abilities. While providing undergraduate and graduate study in multiple disciplines and encouraging individual plans of study, the college functions as a unified, interactive education center, dedicated to preparing designers capable of shaping the environment to various scales, but always in response to society's needs.