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Zoocentric Design: Pigs, Products, Prototypes and Performances

Baxter, Seaton; Bruce, Fraser // 2013
This paper is concerned with how we apply design to our association with other non-human animals. It exemplifies this with the domestication and current use of the pig (Sus domesticus). After a brief ...

A Case Study of Mechatronics Education in Product Design Course Using a Teaching Tool for PIC Processor

Atsushi, Mitani // 2012
This paper described outline of the mechatronics class in the Product Design Course of the School of Design, Sapporo City University, Japan. The mechatronics is an essential technology for various ...

A Holistic Approach to Product Design

Koohgilani, Mehran; Khan, Zulfiqar; Parkinson, Biran // 2012
The demand and expectations for manufactured products continues to grow whilst the level of technology employed in their design becoming more sophisticated and critical. As a result, in educating ...

Adopting 'FabLab' Model to Embed Creative Entrepreneurship Across Design Program

Pengelly, Jon; Fairburn, Sue; Newlands, Bruce // 2012
This paper sets out to describe and contextualize the impact a new FabLab workshop program has had on the direction and curriculum development at Gray’s School of Art, Robert Gordon University ...

An Improvement in Method: From User Study First To Fast Concept Design First

Li, L.; Hu, Y.; Galli, F. // 2012
The most common design process in the interaction design industry is user research-concept design-prototype testing. This process can help designers to identify target users, design products, and ...

Assessment of Design Competencies by a Five Level Model of Expertise

Albers, Albert; Turki, Tarak; Lohmeyer, Quentin // 2012
In recent years, enabling competencies has become more and more relevant in design education and design practice. Various problem-orientated and project-based learning approaches allow students to ...

Assessment of Engineering Design Theses

Watty, Robert; Kreimeyer, Matthias // 2012
To evaluate a student’s work best possible, the assessment of theses written as part of the curriculum has to meet certain standards from both an academic and an industrial perspective to fully ...

Balancing Design Project Supervision and Learning Facilitation

Louise, M // 2012
In design there is a long tradition for apprenticeship, as well as tradition for learning through design projects. Today many design educations are positioned within the University context, and have ...

Bauhaus and Ming-Style – A Comparative Study to Contribute to the Understanding of Cultural Impact on Product Design

Wu, Wenyu; Brezing, Alex // 2012
the global design community, the name of the famous German institution stands for one of the biggest influences on modern design. Bauhaus furniture meant a disruptive change in style in its time, ...

Beyond Ethnic Footwear: Action Research Generating New Educational Insights on Design Processes

Willems, Catherine; Van Gogh; Pinxten, Hendrik // 2012
The paper explores the use of indigenous knowledge – in this case the knowledge on two types of ethnic footwear - in combination with a more abstract design model – “integration-ideation model” - to ...

Body Perception Importance for Wellbeing Design

Thomsen, Bente Dahl // 2012
Training of the bodily receptivity and the sensibility is more or less absent from the universities’ design education, this is a problem in wellbeing design which is based on the fact that all human ...

Breaking the Mould: Responding to the Growing Impact of Additive Manufacturing on Product Design Education

Loy, Jennifer // 2012
Twentieth century manufacturing was dominated by the demand for faster, cheaper, more efficient production. Standardisation, common components, design for broad markets, design obsolescence: these ...

Challenge of Teaching Product Design in Master Course with Heterogeneous Qualification in Indian Context

Shende, Avinash; Das, Amarendra Kumar // 2012
Globalization has increased awareness of design profession in India. Initially design education started in premier technical institutions like IITs, IISc and specialized design school i.e. NID and ...

Circle of Form

Jaeger, Thomas Arvid // 2012
Teaching aesthetics belongs to one of the most flourishing part in education. The variety of methods, terminology and tradition differs from country to country, school to school and from person to ...

Coming of Age as Design(er) for Social Sustainability

Asheim, Jonas; Kj, Anders // 2012
Based on a reflection on a multi-disciplinary design project in Haiti, this paper aims to discuss how social sustainability, in particular from an emerging economy and developing world perspective, ...

Computer Aided Design as an Idea and Concept Generation Tool in the Early Stages of the Design Process

Liem, Andre // 2012
This article claims that in certain circumstances digital visual representations (CAD) can facilitate a better understanding of the form than sketches and drawings, in the early creative idea and ...

CREATING A RESEARCH ENVIRONMENT FOR THE EVALUATION OF Design education IN EMBODIMENT DESIGN

Spitas, C., Badke-Schaub, P.; Spitas, V.; Rajabalinejad, M.; Karana, E. // 2012
In this paper we present a theoretically motivated and evaluation-centred research approach which aims to analyse behaviour patterns of students when dealing with complex problems in embodiment ...

Creating Confidence in an Alienating Educational Environment

Loy, Jennifer // 2012
Design education is in transition as content becomes driven by sustainable practice and, most recently, ideas emerging in relation to post-sustainable practice. Over the past two decades design ...

Creating Novel Product Form based on Formal Aesthetics - A Method for Advanced Form Design Education

Rahe, Ulrike; Babapour, Maral; , Bj // 2012
One of the most distinct aspects of creativity in design is an aesthetic sense, an indubitable determinant of product success in the market. It is therefore of great importance to nurture creativity ...

Creative Space in Design Education: A Typology of Spatial Functions

Thoring, Katja; Luippold, Carmen; Mueller, Roland M. // 2012
This article analyses the role of the space for facilitating creativity, especially in the context of creative education. Based on a qualitative user research with cultural probes, five different ...

Creativity and Innovtion: Developing Design Thinking and Visual Communication Skills

Trowsdale, D. B.; McKay, A.; Giard, J. // 2012
A common feature of today‘s societal challenges lies in their complexity. Society‘s ability to address these problems depends on education programmes developing in their graduates competencies and ...

Creativity in Design Education: The Effect of C-K’S C-constructs

Zeiler, Wim // 2012
The design of buildings is complex and requires the support of multi-disciplinary design teams. Therefore a supportive design approach has been developed: Integral Design. Integral Design combines an ...

Customer Value and Lean Operations in Masters Education

Watt, Cameron; Angelis, Jannis; Chapman, Damian // 2012
There has been a shift towards greater independence and choice for students, as people want more information and control over their education. Moreover, universities face an increasingly complex list ...

Defining Creativity as Problem Solving in Graphic Design Education

Alhajri, S. A. // 2012
yet it is difficult to find a definition of creativity that suits all fields. This paper argues that creativity in relation to graphic design education can be defined as problem solving. This paper ...

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