Ing De Los Materiales
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INVIGORATING INDUSTRIAL DESIGN MATERIALS
AND MANUFACTURING EDUCATION
Materials and manufacturing are vitally important subjects for industrial designers, being the means by which virtual productsare turned to physical reality. Historically materials and manufacturing education has been dominated by engineering approaches, which often are too technical and poorly suited to the human-centredconcerns of industrial designers. The common point is to articulate ways in which designers can use materials to affect people’s experiences of products on aesthetic, meaning and emotional levels,within a wider context of product differentiation, branding, and other commercial imperatives. Accompanying this new body of research is a need to examine implications for industrial design materials andmanufacturing education.
APPROACHES TO TEACHING MATERIALS AND
MANUFACTURING
Top-Down Versus Bottom-Up Teaching
As a result, bottom-up approaches
were adopted, with students expected to applytheir knowledge in other courses, principally the design practice and studio projects at the core of the Loughborough curriculum. However, there can be justified concerns about how easily students canapply their learning to product design projects.
Outsourced Versus In-House Teaching
A reliance on outsourcing arises for several reasons. The most fundamental is access to appropriate expertise:many educators in industrial design have specialized in topics other than materials and
manufacturing, leaving a necessity to call on external experts from engineering and materials departments.Other reasons include the centralization and modularisation of shared courses across
degree programmes from different departments.
EDUCATIONAL INITIATIVES
Echo Professional Practices
For theindustrial design student’s experience in materials and manufacturing to be at its most relevant and enriching, it is considered vital that a good correspondence is made between degree course content...
AND MANUFACTURING EDUCATION
Materials and manufacturing are vitally important subjects for industrial designers, being the means by which virtual productsare turned to physical reality. Historically materials and manufacturing education has been dominated by engineering approaches, which often are too technical and poorly suited to the human-centredconcerns of industrial designers. The common point is to articulate ways in which designers can use materials to affect people’s experiences of products on aesthetic, meaning and emotional levels,within a wider context of product differentiation, branding, and other commercial imperatives. Accompanying this new body of research is a need to examine implications for industrial design materials andmanufacturing education.
APPROACHES TO TEACHING MATERIALS AND
MANUFACTURING
Top-Down Versus Bottom-Up Teaching
As a result, bottom-up approaches
were adopted, with students expected to applytheir knowledge in other courses, principally the design practice and studio projects at the core of the Loughborough curriculum. However, there can be justified concerns about how easily students canapply their learning to product design projects.
Outsourced Versus In-House Teaching
A reliance on outsourcing arises for several reasons. The most fundamental is access to appropriate expertise:many educators in industrial design have specialized in topics other than materials and
manufacturing, leaving a necessity to call on external experts from engineering and materials departments.Other reasons include the centralization and modularisation of shared courses across
degree programmes from different departments.
EDUCATIONAL INITIATIVES
Echo Professional Practices
For theindustrial design student’s experience in materials and manufacturing to be at its most relevant and enriching, it is considered vital that a good correspondence is made between degree course content...
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