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Supporting sustainability thinking in postgraduate design education

Brass, Clare // 2013
Conventional design education, driving consumerism and growth, is today unsustainable, and must position itself to allow designers to learn to create responsibly, responding to issues that might be ...

Systems thinking and connecting the silos of design education

Park, Hyuna; Benson, Eric // 2013
While the design industry is a complex and multidimensional landscape, the current design curriculum lives in stark contrast: linear and compartmentalized. University product design curricula are ...

Tangible ideation: how digital fabrication acts as a catalyst in the early steps of product development

Valamanesh, Roozbeh; Shin, Dosun // 2013
Embodiment of a concept has constantly been a preventive factor in creativity when it comes to complex topics. This has been moderated by emergence of digital fabrication since late 80’s. Making ...

Task furniture in education: design, science and industry creating solutions to support 21st century learning

Milton, Alex; Mc Mahon, Caoimhe; Dennehy, Simon // 2013
This paper seeks to describe the methods and initial outputs generated by the Task Furniture in Education (TFE) project, a Marie Curie FP7 (IAPP) Industry-Academia Partnerships and Pathways funded ...

Teaching design theory: scaffolding for experiential learning

Hiort af Ornäs, Viktor; Keitsch, Martina // 2013
A future in ever changing professions requires design students to become competent in engaging with different types of knowledge. This article argues that teaching students the ability to reflect on ...

Technology as a design strategy for products useful for elderly people in Indian context

Kumar, Aditya; Das, Amarendra Kumar // 2013
The number of Elderly People in India is increasing and this has opened up a new area in products and services to cater to this need. Until now due to the prevailing joint family structure, elderly ...

The characteristics of form in relation to product emotion

Jamaludin, Mohd Syafiq; Zulkapli, Muhammad Fadli; Zainal Abidin, Shahriman // 2013
This study is to investigate the use of visual analogy in design characteristics. The main purpose is to provide an understanding of how product design can affect or influence user emotion. Emotion ...

The development of a Lego Mindstorms-based curriculum for design and ergonomics students

Garrett, David W.; Underwood, Peter J.; Jun, Gyuchan Thomas // 2013
Design students' understanding of design processes and their ability to continually improve on them is a fundamental concern in design education. This paper discusses a curriculum development project ...

The importance of common sense: ergonomics in design education

Davies, Philippa; Bingham, Guy // 2013
Ergonomics is often just considered by designers and engineers as ‘common sense’. Given this perception what is the rationale for including ergonomics with Product Design curriculums? This paper ...

The innovation paradox: starting from what is ‘known’ to facilitate the discovery of the ‘unknown’

Vandenhende, Karel // 2013
How can we teach students to design creatively? From the literature on early stages in effective learning processes, we know that for education to be effective, design assignments should evolve from ...

The making of a journey-identifying new design approaches in contemporary art

Sjovoll, Vibeke; Gulden, Tore // 2013
This article explores how approaches identified in contemporary art can offer new perspectives in design education. The inquiry is done by involving product design students in such approaches through ...

The potential of low cost topology optimization

Beger, Anna-Lena; Brezing, Alex; Feldhusen, Jörg // 2013
Topology optimization (TO) is a powerful tool to generate forms for structural parts. Used at the beginning of the design process, it can generally lead to a reduction of iteration loops and an ...

The role of the design coach - a novel approach to achieving 360 collaboration between industry and higher education

Styger, Lee Edward Jan; Ellis, Ian // 2013
There is significant latent design talent within the broader business community, however, much of the design potential is isolated, and, lacks the necessary focus to manifest positive commercial ...

The use of systematic and heuristic methods in the basic design cycle: a comparative survey of students’ method usage

Person, Oscar; Daalhuizen, Jaap; Gattol, Valentin // 2013
In the present paper, we study the reported use of systematic and heuristic methods for 304 students enrolled in a master-level course on design theory and methodology. What to teach design and ...

Tools for assessing student learning in mechanical design courses

Holland, Dónal; Walsh, Conor J.; Bennett, Gareth J. // 2013
Assessing student learning and evaluating the effects of innovation in teaching remain a challenge for design educators and researchers. This paper describes the development of a set of assessment ...

Towards an internationalised product design curriculum

Loy, Jennifer; Welch, Donald // 2013
Students starting their Product Design studies in Australia next year will be graduating into a very internationalised profession. Production has moved increasingly off shore, markets are ...

Towards documentation support for educational design thinking projects

Beyhl, Thomas; Berg, Gregor; Giese, Holger // 2013
The design thinking methodology is an incubator for innovative products and services. Design thinking is based on in-depth interactions with prospective end-users and therefore usually results in ...

Transitioning product education to product service education

Ryan, Linda; Tormey, David; Share, Perry // 2013
The defining lines between product and service are becoming increasingly blurred. The importance of services is increasing within manufacturing companies and trends are moving towards a more product ...

Tutorial sustainable innovations - An innovative role-play concept for education

Rath, Karola; Birkhofer, Herbert; Kloberdanz, Hermann; Hanusch, Dirk // 2013
Developing sustainable products is no easy task. For designers, this means that not only technical requirements for functional performance but also ecological, economic and social requirements have ...

Universal dilettantes and blinkered specialists: historic models and future potential of interdisciplinary design education

Oswald, David // 2013
Interdisciplinarity in design education has been a controversial discussion topic for decades. The discourse on the risks and chances of interdisciplinarity has often been headed by strong terms such ...

Using qualitative research methods in engineering design research

Daly, Shanna; McGowan, Anna; Papalambros, Panos // 2013
In order to support successful strategies in design education and practice, we must have a deep understanding of the complex dynamics of design processes, teams, contexts, and systems. Facilitating ...

Visual elements of products - an educational experience on “resetting and reshaping a product”

Ferraris, Silvia; Ferraro, Venere // 2013
This paper aims at describing an educational experience held at the Design School of Politecnico di Milano, Italy, during the first year of Bachelor Course in Industrial Product Design.
The course ...

Walk the talk. or: a design driven approach to design design education

Valkenburg, Rianne C.; Sluijs, Janneke // 2013
The world is, at the moment, rapidly transforming and incites us to rethink and redesign society. Innovation itself is transforming, changing the way organisations and industry innovate and ...

Wheel of design – reflective alignment of design skills with aspirations

Bull, Karen Lisa; Barrett, Alan; Osmond, Jane // 2013
The increased focus on modularisation within the western Higher Education curriculum is criticised by some as leading to a fragmentation of the learning process. This fragmentation can lead to ...

Boolean Searches

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  • design community
    Find rows that contain at least one of the two words.
  • +design +community
    Find rows that contain both words.
  • +design community
    Find rows that contain the word “design”, but rank rows higher if they also contain “community”.
  • +design -community
    Find rows that contain the word “design” but not “community”.
  • +design ~community
    Find rows that contain the word “design”, but if the row also contains the word “community”, rate it lower than if row does not.
  • +design +(>community <decisions)
    Find rows that contain the words “design” and “community”, or “design” and “decisions” (in any order), but rank “design community” higher than “design decisions”
  • design*
    Find rows that contain words such as “design”, “designs”, “designing”, or “designer”.
  • "some words"
    Find rows that contain the exact phrase “some words” (for example, rows that contain “some words of wisdom” but not “some noise words”). Note that the " characters that enclose the phrase are operator characters that delimit the phrase. They are not the quotation marks that enclose the search string itself.

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