Thomas, V. (2016) Product design education: a journey? In: Bohemia, E., Buck, L., Eriksen, K., Kovacevic, A., Ovesen, N. and Tollestrup, C. (eds.) Design Education: Collaboration and Cross-Disciplinarity: Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education. Glasgow: The Design Society. pp. 228-223.
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Abstract:
Product Design education can be focused on training. Providing students with skills to use tools, computer programs and tried and tested methodologies to solve problems. It can be presented as a planned and structured process. Design is seen as a problem solving activity rather than a wider creative endeavor. Such an approach provides clear structure that, students find it hard to challenge. Universities are not being tested on their ability to train but will be assessed on their teaching. Teaching seems to be more about a relationship. In the craft world, between apprentice and master- there was another stage of a journeyman, the learning on the job. Design students are inspired to learn by doing and making. Yet, contact time and working together in workshops sessions are being cut back. The increasing number of students, costs savings and digitally based campuses, are all reducing the time and space allowed for making, nurturing and maintaining a supportive learning environment that applicants expect and need. Design Thinking might have its origins in design practice. Its starting place is about educating non-designers about the design process. In Product Design education we need to educate designers to think and experience things for themselves. The pressures, both internal and external, seem to be reducing the quality of independent design thought and creativity. The 'journey’ is important to design education and not a cliché.
Additional Information:
Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Engineering & Product Design Education (E&PDE 2016), Aalborg University, Denmark, 08-09 September 2016.
Uncontrolled Keywords:
Teaching product design, change, design thinking, making, workshops, experience, journey
Subjects:
Creators:
Thomas, V.
Editors:
Bohemia, E., Buck, L., Eriksen, K., Kovacevic, A., Ovesen, N. and Tollestrup, C.
Funders or Sponsors:
The Design Society
Publisher:
The Design Society
Faculties, Divisions and Institutes:
Date:
12 September 2016
Date Type:
Publication
Page Range:
pp. 228-223
Title of Book:
Design Education: Collaboration and Cross-Disciplinarity: Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education
Event Title:
18th International Conference on Engineering & Product Design Education (E&PDE 2016)
Event Dates:
08-09 September 2016
Place of Publication:
Glasgow
Event Location:
Aalborg University, Denmark
Event Type:
Conference
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781904670780
Media of Output:
CD and print
Status:
Published / Disseminated
Refereed:
Yes
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