TY - GEN
T1 - A framework for understanding product design practice and education
AU - Trathen, Stephen
AU - Varadarjan, Soumitri
PY - 2017/1/1
Y1 - 2017/1/1
N2 - This paper describes the Industrial Design ecology framework model - a propositional model for product/industrial design practice and education, and explores how this model can illuminate current and future scenarios in these fields. The model was informed by qualitative research with product/industrial design graduates, and is important in visualising the breadth of local and international design practice. It highlights the tensions and dynamism of the profession, and how this mutable landscape could drive continuing evolutions in design education. Changes in the priority attached to the elements comprising the Industrial Design ecology framework model can describe the past, illuminate the present and provide scenarios for possible futures; all dependent on their proportional relationships, connectedness and emphasis. Privileging different elements can reflect or create new educational policy frameworks that May send us back in time or propel us into emerging futures. The Industrial Design ecology framework model provides a conceptual basis to consider possible futures and potential directions for steering product/industrial design practice and education.
AB - This paper describes the Industrial Design ecology framework model - a propositional model for product/industrial design practice and education, and explores how this model can illuminate current and future scenarios in these fields. The model was informed by qualitative research with product/industrial design graduates, and is important in visualising the breadth of local and international design practice. It highlights the tensions and dynamism of the profession, and how this mutable landscape could drive continuing evolutions in design education. Changes in the priority attached to the elements comprising the Industrial Design ecology framework model can describe the past, illuminate the present and provide scenarios for possible futures; all dependent on their proportional relationships, connectedness and emphasis. Privileging different elements can reflect or create new educational policy frameworks that May send us back in time or propel us into emerging futures. The Industrial Design ecology framework model provides a conceptual basis to consider possible futures and potential directions for steering product/industrial design practice and education.
KW - Design education
KW - Future practice
KW - Design behaviour
KW - Design pedagogy
KW - Design paradigm
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85042086154
SN - 9781904670841
T3 - Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education: Building Community: Design Education for a Sustainable Future, E and PDE 2017
SP - 454
EP - 459
BT - Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education
PB - Institution of Engineering Designers, The Design Society
T2 - 19th International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education, E and PDE 2017
Y2 - 7 September 2017 through 8 September 2017
ER -