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EXPERIENTIAL VALUES AS PROMOTERS FOR EMERGING VIEWS ON SUSTAINABLE DESIGN EDUCATION

Hasling, Karen Marie // 2016
This paper explores dynamics between materials use, technical and experiential attributes and
experiential sustainability to promote sustainable design in design education.
Sustainable development ...

FROM ETHICS TO POLITICS: IF DESIGN IS PROBLEM SOLVING, WHAT THEN ARE THE PROBLEMS?

Oswald, David // 2016
The great design movements in design history were, for the most part, guided by utopian, political, or
at least reformist aims. They combined the question of what today is called ‘material culture’ ...

GOOD BENEFACTORS MANAGING DESIGNEXPECTATIONS

Thomas, Vicki // 2015
Product design graduates can present themselves as over confident, unrealistic and even arrogant to potential clients. They seem to assume knowledge about their benefactors and have some false ...

OLD HOPES THROUGH NEW SCHEMES: A PATH TOWARDS INNOVATION

Caro Del Castillo, Andres // 2015
This paper seeks to provide a method of developing innovative thoughts, theories and ways of doing
by unearthing and reconsidering theories proposed as a reaction to the circumstances created by ...

QUESTIONS OF VALUE - ETHICS IN THE DESIGN CURRICULUM

Hiort Af Ornäs, Viktor; Keitsch, Martina // 2015
Decisions made by designers multiply in their consequences, as products are mass-produced. With changing designer roles addressing systems, services and symbols the questions of value a designer ...

THE PURPOSE OF INDUSTRIAL DESIGN DEVELOPMENT – DILEMMA OF ETHICAL & SOCIAL ASPECTS OF DESIGN BACHELOR AND MASTER PROJECTS IN LATVIA

Freimane, Aija // 2015
Industrial production is highlighted as the main source of development and well-being for the people. It is expected that design both as a process and the result helps to generate profit but ethical ...

Ethics – Research, Engineering Design …They’re All the Same Aren’t They?

Humphries-Smith, Tania; Blount, Gordon; Powell, John // 2014
This paper considers how and to what extent product design ethics is understood by professionals in design practice and undergraduate students of product and engineering design and how, if at all, ...

Political Action and Implicit Knowledge in Engineering Education: A Case Study

Bromberg, Sergio; Polo, Viviana // 2014
The educational act is a political act, where information and data are just a fraction of what should be taught. Indeed, there has been much literature on the subject of promoting creativity, ...

Positive Ethics in Design Education

Sonneveld, Marina Henrieke // 2014
Technology has a strong impact on the way we live our lives, on our behaviour. Technology seems thereby to be a strong factor in the ethical aspects of our daily live. Being aware of these aspects is ...

Promoting Environmental Sustainability by Fostering a Culture of Material Ethics

Chance, Shannon; O'Rourke, Pearl // 2014
Creating a culture of ‘material ethics’ can help engineers and product designers in the quest to achieve environmental sustainability. By framing this particular issue and focusing attention on it, ...

Re-Assessment of the Crafted Means of Production in Industrial Design

Caro del Castillo Hernandez, Jorge Andres; Berg, Arild // 2014
This paper discusses the ways in which a reassessment of the crafted means of production could help provide the workers in the production segments of the design industry with improved conditions and ...

Teaching Ethics in Engineering and Design, the Necessity of Concurrent Engineering.

Gonz, Carlos Alberto // 2014
Mechatronics engineering is a discipline, which links together three different areas: mechanics, electronics and digital systems. This major, has proven its use in industry, it allows them to have ...

THE REFLECTIVE DESIGNER: A DISCUSSION ON ETHICS BASED ON END-USER INVOLVEMENT IN KEBRI BEYAH REFUGEE CAMP

Nielsen, B.F. // 2014
Involving end-users in the design process is rare, and end-user access in humanitarian relief settings is often hindered partly due to ethical considerations. Contextual challenges unpredictably ...

A model for transforming engineering education through group learning

Chance, Shannon Massie; Duffy, Gavin; Bowe, Brian; Murphy, Mike; Duggan, Tony // 2013
Engineering educators at Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT) have successfully implemented pedagogical change. They now use group-based, student-centred, inquiry-driven approaches in each year of ...

Characters, Fun and Games: Creating Common Ground between Students and Children as Co-Design Partners.

Grundy, Catherine Anne; Morris, Richard; Pemberton, Lyn // 2012
Design methods that include the end user of a product in the design process can be useful for undergraduate Product Design projects. These approaches allow a novice designer to gain the perspective ...

A multidisciplinary framework for (teaching) Human Product Relations

Eggink, Wouter; van der Bijl-Brouwer, Mieke // 2010
In this paper we introduce a framework for dealing with the complexity of human-product relationships. The actual framework is a matrix of design perspectives, with three cooperating disciplines on ...

Embedding Ethics into the Engineering and Product Design Curricula: A Case Study from the UK

Covill, Derek; Gill, Deshinder Singh; Katz ,Tim; Morris, Richard // 2010
In recent years there has been a notable emphasis from professional bodies on embedding professionally relevant issues, such as sustainable development and ethics into academic courses ...

Ethics in Product Design Curriculum: An example from the Oslo School of Architecture and Design

Keitsch, Martina Maria; Bjørstad, Nina // 2010
The scope of design research and practice has successively changed - from a focus on material aspects to a focus on the intangible, from functions to pleasure, from goods to services and values [1]. ...

FROM ANTHROPOCENTRIC DESIGN TO ECOSPHERIC DESIGN: QUESTIONING DESIGN EPICENTRE

Acosta, G. G.; Romeva, C. R. // 2010
This paper proposes a change of epicentre in design and product-service development areas. Reality is showing us that human life is unsustainable and that we are not aware of the total dependency of ...

Teaching Ethics in Design: A Review of Current Practice

Lofthouse, Vicky; Lilley, Debra // 2009
This paper reflects on the findings from a benchmarking study which investigated current approaches for teaching ethics to designers and engineers. The research has been carried out as part of a one ...

Thinking and Re-Thinking Verbal Protocol Analysis in Design Research

Zainal Abidin, Shahriman; Christoforidou, Despina; Liem, Andre // 2009
This paper assesses the appropriateness of verbal protocol analysis (VPA) as a means of analysing design activity. Design activity includes human cognitive abilities such as creativity, synthesis, ...

Boolean Searches

The following examples demonstrate some search strings that use boolean operators:

  • design community
    Find rows that contain at least one of the two words.
  • +design +community
    Find rows that contain both words.
  • +design community
    Find rows that contain the word “design”, but rank rows higher if they also contain “community”.
  • +design -community
    Find rows that contain the word “design” but not “community”.
  • +design ~community
    Find rows that contain the word “design”, but if the row also contains the word “community”, rate it lower than if row does not.
  • +design +(>community <decisions)
    Find rows that contain the words “design” and “community”, or “design” and “decisions” (in any order), but rank “design community” higher than “design decisions”
  • design*
    Find rows that contain words such as “design”, “designs”, “designing”, or “designer”.
  • "some words"
    Find rows that contain the exact phrase “some words” (for example, rows that contain “some words of wisdom” but not “some noise words”). Note that the " characters that enclose the phrase are operator characters that delimit the phrase. They are not the quotation marks that enclose the search string itself.

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