TY - GEN
T1 - Educating for transcultural design
AU - Tate, Derrick
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2014 The Authors and IOS Press.
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - Design broadly defined deals with mapping from what individuals in society want or need to means for satisfying these needs. Thus, an appropriate basis for product design deals with user-centered product and systems design for society in response to social, cultural, and technical context. A new generation of industrial and product designers needs to be educated who are able to understand and participate in the world's ongoing social, cultural, and economic transformation through achieving a balance of creative and technical knowledge and competencies. Many different disciplines have a role to play in developing products, processes, systems, and technologies, and industrial designers should be product integrators and bridge builders between disciplines and cultures. Throughout the design process, cultural knowledge has a large role to play in the ultimate success of products and systems across many dimensions. This paper presents educational strategies for cultural awareness, understanding, and adaptation as applied to the creation, innovation, and development of products and technologies. This paper describes the context of recent approaches to integrating design within universities and focuses on the development of the new Bachelor of Engineering program in the Department of Industrial Design at Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University.
AB - Design broadly defined deals with mapping from what individuals in society want or need to means for satisfying these needs. Thus, an appropriate basis for product design deals with user-centered product and systems design for society in response to social, cultural, and technical context. A new generation of industrial and product designers needs to be educated who are able to understand and participate in the world's ongoing social, cultural, and economic transformation through achieving a balance of creative and technical knowledge and competencies. Many different disciplines have a role to play in developing products, processes, systems, and technologies, and industrial designers should be product integrators and bridge builders between disciplines and cultures. Throughout the design process, cultural knowledge has a large role to play in the ultimate success of products and systems across many dimensions. This paper presents educational strategies for cultural awareness, understanding, and adaptation as applied to the creation, innovation, and development of products and technologies. This paper describes the context of recent approaches to integrating design within universities and focuses on the development of the new Bachelor of Engineering program in the Department of Industrial Design at Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University.
KW - Design thinking
KW - Design-in-China
KW - Liberal arts
KW - Transcultural design
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84946020795&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3233/978-1-61499-440-4-467
DO - 10.3233/978-1-61499-440-4-467
M3 - Conference Proceeding
AN - SCOPUS:84946020795
T3 - Advances in Transdisciplinary Engineering
SP - 467
EP - 476
BT - Moving Integrated Product Development to Service Clouds in the Global Economy - Proceedings of the 21st ISPE Inc. International Conference on Concurrent Engineering, CE 2014
A2 - Chou, Shuo-Yan
A2 - Stjepandic, Josip
A2 - Xu, Wensheng
A2 - Cha, Jianzhong
A2 - Curran, Richard
PB - IOS Press BV
T2 - 21st ISPE Inc. International Conference on Concurrent Engineering: Moving Integrated Product Development to Service Clouds in the Global Economy, CE 2014
Y2 - 8 September 2014 through 11 September 2014
ER -
