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Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Opportunity not responsibility
T2 - engaging industrial design students in design for sustainability
AU - Clune, Stephen
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - This paper argues that to encourage future design practitioners to design for sustainability (DfS), new vocational opportunities need to be explored within education to enable designers to operate beyond traditional product design. Educating for such vocations presents DfS as an opportunity, as opposed to a moral responsibility. Three vocations are proposed from the results of a four-year action research study: first, to use industrial designers' creativity skills to conceptualise new product opportunities; second, to use industrial designers' creativity skills in developing entrepreneurial business ventures that would be profitable; third, to use industrial designers' creativity skills as a DfS consultant to assist businesses, communities or individuals to make the transition to a more sustainable society. Students' reflections upon the vocations are presented as challenges to the vocations present in the industrial design curriculum, as they suggest that changes in the skill set may be required.
AB - This paper argues that to encourage future design practitioners to design for sustainability (DfS), new vocational opportunities need to be explored within education to enable designers to operate beyond traditional product design. Educating for such vocations presents DfS as an opportunity, as opposed to a moral responsibility. Three vocations are proposed from the results of a four-year action research study: first, to use industrial designers' creativity skills to conceptualise new product opportunities; second, to use industrial designers' creativity skills in developing entrepreneurial business ventures that would be profitable; third, to use industrial designers' creativity skills as a DfS consultant to assist businesses, communities or individuals to make the transition to a more sustainable society. Students' reflections upon the vocations are presented as challenges to the vocations present in the industrial design curriculum, as they suggest that changes in the skill set may be required.
KW - design for sustainability
KW - DfS
KW - design education
KW - vocations
KW - pedagogy
KW - industrial design
KW - design students
KW - higher education
KW - sustainable development
KW - new product opportunities; creativity skills; entrepreneurship; design consultants.
U2 - 10.1504/JDR.2011.041392
DO - 10.1504/JDR.2011.041392
M3 - Journal article
VL - 9
SP - 241
EP - 253
JO - Journal of Design Research
JF - Journal of Design Research
SN - 1748-3050
IS - 3
ER -