Innovating a Large Design Education Program at a University of Technology
Over the last half century, design education has diversified and developed considerably, in part in the arts academies, and increasingly in universities and vocational technical education. The TU Delft design program was founded in 1969, and has since grown quickly into a large, university-based, te...
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| author | Ena Voûte Pieter Jan Stappers Elisa Giaccardi Sylvia Mooij Annemiek van Boeijen |
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| description | Over the last half century, design education has diversified and developed considerably, in part in the arts academies, and increasingly in universities and vocational technical education. The TU Delft design program was founded in 1969, and has since grown quickly into a large, university-based, technology-aligned set of programs presently housing 2000 students and 100 academic staff. In the 50 years the Delft program changed due to: (1) changes in societal demand (from products, via services, to the systemic level of societal challenges), (2) the maturing of design as an academic discipline between science and engineering, and (3) international developments of the educational system (e.g., the Bologna agreement). In this paper we describe the development of this program within the broader disciplinary context of TU Delft, and how it brought together engineering, social sciences, and business studies in project-based education. We draw lessons from a unique position, made possible by this large scale and positioning next to engineering sciences. This position supported a large pool of in-house expertise; it fostered an intertwining of education, research, and practices in the industrial and wider societal context. And it also posed challenges of making design education work at a large scale. Keywords: Design education, Integrated design, PhD in design, Design and society |
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| spelling | doaj.art-ef22e5dcb78b495493cbcade6f08134e2022-12-22T02:41:54ZengElsevierShe Ji: The Journal of Design, Economics and Innovation2405-87262020-01-01615066Innovating a Large Design Education Program at a University of TechnologyEna Voûte0Pieter Jan Stappers1Elisa Giaccardi2Sylvia Mooij3Annemiek van Boeijen4Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering, Delft University of Technology, NetherlandsFaculty of Industrial Design Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands; Corresponding author:Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering, Delft University of Technology, NetherlandsFaculty of Industrial Design Engineering, Delft University of Technology, NetherlandsFaculty of Industrial Design Engineering, Delft University of Technology, NetherlandsOver the last half century, design education has diversified and developed considerably, in part in the arts academies, and increasingly in universities and vocational technical education. The TU Delft design program was founded in 1969, and has since grown quickly into a large, university-based, technology-aligned set of programs presently housing 2000 students and 100 academic staff. In the 50 years the Delft program changed due to: (1) changes in societal demand (from products, via services, to the systemic level of societal challenges), (2) the maturing of design as an academic discipline between science and engineering, and (3) international developments of the educational system (e.g., the Bologna agreement). In this paper we describe the development of this program within the broader disciplinary context of TU Delft, and how it brought together engineering, social sciences, and business studies in project-based education. We draw lessons from a unique position, made possible by this large scale and positioning next to engineering sciences. This position supported a large pool of in-house expertise; it fostered an intertwining of education, research, and practices in the industrial and wider societal context. And it also posed challenges of making design education work at a large scale. Keywords: Design education, Integrated design, PhD in design, Design and societyhttp://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405872620300034 |
| spellingShingle | Ena Voûte Pieter Jan Stappers Elisa Giaccardi Sylvia Mooij Annemiek van Boeijen Innovating a Large Design Education Program at a University of Technology She Ji: The Journal of Design, Economics and Innovation |
| title | Innovating a Large Design Education Program at a University of Technology |
| title_full | Innovating a Large Design Education Program at a University of Technology |
| title_fullStr | Innovating a Large Design Education Program at a University of Technology |
| title_full_unstemmed | Innovating a Large Design Education Program at a University of Technology |
| title_short | Innovating a Large Design Education Program at a University of Technology |
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