MODELS FOR UNDERSTANDING CONTEMPORARY TENSIONS IN INDUSTRIAL DESIGN EDUCATION

DS 83: Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education (E&PDE16), Design Education: Collaboration and Cross-Disciplinarity, Aalborg, Denmark, 8th-9th September 2016

Year: 2016
Editor: Erik Bohemia, Ahmed Kovacevic, Lyndon Buck, Christian Tollestrup, Kaare Eriksen, Nis Ovesen
Author: Trathen, Stephen; Varadarjan, Soumitri
Series: E&PDE
Institution: 1University of Canberra, Australia, 2RMIT University, Australia
Section: Emotions
Page(s): 354-359
ISBN: 978-1-904670-62-9

Abstract

Traditional roles of product/industrial designers are being challenged as manufacturing decreases in
developed economies. Design educators are faced with the question: for what roles should we seek to
equip our students? And which stakeholders are best placed to discern this? Is it employers wanting
job-ready graduates for today’s positions, or educators informed by emerging international
understandings of what designers may be called upon to do in the future?
This paper describes two models developed to articulate and analyse these issues:

Keywords: Models of design education, design practice, industrial design.

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