The Future of Industrial Design Higher Education Driven by Models of Design Thinking and Reasoning

DS 74: Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Engineering & Product Design Education (E&PDE12) Design Education for Future Wellbeing, Antwerp, Belguim, 06-07.9.2012

Year: 2012
Editor: Lyndon Buck, Geert Frateur, William Ion, Chris McMahon, Chris Baelus, Guido De Grande, Stijn Verwulgen
Author: Liem, Andre; Sigurjonsson, Johannes B.
Series: E&PDE
Institution: Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Section: New Design Education Paradigms
Page(s): 387-392
ISBN: 978-1-904670-36-0

Abstract

This conceptual paper argues that the future of industrial design education is determined by the ability of design programs to consciously position themselves according to higher education trends. Whether a design program chooses to be part of a scholarly University, or practice-oriented higher education system, depends on the choice of design thinking models and related processes and methods to be taught, researched and practiced. From a design thinking perspective, it can be argued that a positivistic approach towards problem solving is a typical trait of design programs, which have subjected themselves to a University system of research and education. These programs advocate problem solving and participative models of design thinking. Design programs, who are part of a practice-oriented higher education system, tend to support the reflective and hermeneutic design thinking approaches towards designing. However, a common dedication of faculty members towards mentorship and scholarship being able to promote learning and inquiry from a theoretical, collaborative and process perspective is also important, irrelevant what strategy has been adopted.

Keywords: Design school, higher education, models of design thinking and reasoning

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