INDUSTRIAL DESIGN: A PROFESSION BETWEENENGINEERING AND APPLIED ART

DS 82: Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education (E&PDE15), Great Expectations: Design Teaching, Research & Enterprise, Loughborough, UK, 03-04.09.2015

Year: 2015
Editor: Guy Bingham, Darren Southee, John McCardle, Ahmed Kovacevic, Erik Bohemia, Brian Parkinson
Author: Keitsch, Martina Maria; Prestholt, Eivind
Series: E&PDE
Institution: 1Department of Product Design, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Section: Design Teaching Methods
Page(s): 351-356
ISBN: 978-1-904670-62-9

Abstract

Competences acquired during industrial design education and competences actually required in professional
design practice are sometimes diverging. This article outlines characteristics of the industrial
design profession in Norway, discussing changes in the profession, different roles of the industrial designer,
and skills and knowledge required. With a basis in surveys done at the Norwegian University
of Science and Technology (NTNU) as well as in depth interviews of graduate industrial designers
from NTNU, a set of skills, knowledge and qualifications are identified and implications for improvement
of industrial design education are made

Keywords: Industrial design education, skills, knowledge and qualifications in industrial design

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