This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. 1. Education for Economic Growth or Human Development? Trends in higher education have led educationists and academics to argue that design education has come to function as an alternative form of general liberal arts education (Buchanan, 1992, p. 5). Now students might choose to study design as they might choose to study the humanities and arts, that is, without the intention to pursue design as a career (Schön, 1985, p. 2). Consequently, design education is caught within the 'The Conflict of the Faculties' between design as form of professional education and design as an alternative form of liberal arts education (Friedman, 2003, p. 245). Consequently, a core challenge for university-level design education is meeting the plural needs of educating students for a demanding job in a professional field and preparing citizens for life in the global knowledge economy (Friedman, 2002, pp. 27-33). Liberal arts education, according to Martha Nussbaum (2012), is about "challenging the