Industrial Design Curriculum: A Tabula Rasa for Users’ Cultural Needs

نویسندگانMohammad Razzaghi - Nazanin Mohammadkhani
همایشCONNECTED 2010 – 2ND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DESIGN EDUCATION
تاریخ برگزاری همایش2010-6-28/7-1
محل برگزاری همایشSydney | Australia
ارائه به نام دانشگاهUniversity of Art
نوع ارائهسخنرانی
سطح همایشبین المللی

چکیده مقاله

Products are designed to satisfy sets of different requirements, including users’ cultural preferences. For delivering these preferences, design students must develop, through their formal education, the essential skills so that a conversation with the intended user can be established. Such expertise depends on firstly, a thorough understanding of users’ wants and secondly, suitably translating this understanding into desired qualities of products. This appears to be essential for designing successful products. However, there are reasons to argue that this know-how virtuosity is mostly ignored in the curriculum of industrial design (ID). This paper discusses the educational circumstances under which challenges are raised as how to incorporate users’ cultural needs into products.