A new approach to materials in Product Design education : A shift from technical properties towards sensorial characteristics
(2017) 2017 International Conference of the Design Research Society Special Interest Group on Experiential Knowledge: Alive. Active. Adaptive, EKSIG 2017 p.182-193- Abstract
This study evaluates a new pedagogic approach implemented in material courses for product design students at bachelor level education. Material education within the field of design education at technical faculties has, in general, a strong technical focus, e.g. selecting materials with predominant focus on engineering properties of materials. Product design education at a bachelor level need to offer material courses that prepares the design students to work both on inspirational and analytical levels in material selection processes. Early in the design education, students often have a preconception of materials, and they need to be introduced to an open-minded inspirational material selection process, based on scientific design... (More)
This study evaluates a new pedagogic approach implemented in material courses for product design students at bachelor level education. Material education within the field of design education at technical faculties has, in general, a strong technical focus, e.g. selecting materials with predominant focus on engineering properties of materials. Product design education at a bachelor level need to offer material courses that prepares the design students to work both on inspirational and analytical levels in material selection processes. Early in the design education, students often have a preconception of materials, and they need to be introduced to an open-minded inspirational material selection process, based on scientific design methods. When developing a new curriculum for the material courses, it is important to teach materials and production methods in a contextualized setting with emphasis on how materials can be approached in a design process. Methods can be seen as mental tools that aids the design students in navigating complexity and offers them a structure to deal with unfamiliar territories. After an evaluation, we selected some methods, guidelines and tools to integrate in the mandatory material courses for the product design students e.g. the Expressive-Sensorial Atlas, Meaning Driven Materials Selection and the Material Driven Design method. The implementation were made in two steps in order to test, evaluate and further develop a framework for teaching materials courses to product design students. This study only reports the first step of implementation since the second step is under development and will be implemented during autumn 2017.
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- author
- Asbjørn Sörensen, Charlotte LU ; Warell, Anders LU and Jagtap, Santosh LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2017
- type
- Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Material driven design, Material education, Product design, Material selection, Teaching practice
- host publication
- Alive. Active. Adaptive : International Conference on Experiential Knowledge and Emerging Materials, EKSIG 2017 - International Conference on Experiential Knowledge and Emerging Materials, EKSIG 2017
- editor
- Karana, Elvin ; Giaccardi, Elisa ; Nimkulrat, Nithikul ; Niedderer, Kristina and Camere, Serena
- pages
- 12 pages
- publisher
- TU Delft Open
- conference name
- 2017 International Conference of the Design Research Society Special Interest Group on Experiential Knowledge: Alive. Active. Adaptive, EKSIG 2017
- conference location
- Rotterdam, Netherlands
- conference dates
- 2017-06-19 - 2017-06-20
- external identifiers
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- scopus:85081060976
- ISBN
- 9788790775902
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- 516bcf1a-d7c2-47d7-b934-1c34eafbbeb4
- alternative location
- http://muep.mau.se/bitstream/handle/2043/23546/Asbjorn%20Sorensen%20Jagtap%20Warell%202017.pdf?sequence=2&isAllowed=y
- http://muep.mau.se/handle/2043/23546
- date added to LUP
- 2019-06-30 22:55:48
- date last changed
- 2022-03-10 18:40:49
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author = {{Asbjørn Sörensen, Charlotte and Warell, Anders and Jagtap, Santosh}},
booktitle = {{Alive. Active. Adaptive : International Conference on Experiential Knowledge and Emerging Materials, EKSIG 2017}},
editor = {{Karana, Elvin and Giaccardi, Elisa and Nimkulrat, Nithikul and Niedderer, Kristina and Camere, Serena}},
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keywords = {{Material driven design; Material education; Product design; Material selection; Teaching practice}},
language = {{eng}},
pages = {{182--193}},
publisher = {{TU Delft Open}},
title = {{A new approach to materials in Product Design education : A shift from technical properties towards sensorial characteristics}},
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year = {{2017}},
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