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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 ...

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, ...

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