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An investigation into a digital strategy for industrial design education
As the number of digital natives increases and the range of digital design tools / media continues to expand, it is timely to examine the potential for an entirely digital industrial design process that can be employed in practice and education. Following a literature review, a draft Digital Industrial Design (DID) strategy that focuses on the core design activities of sketching, drawing, model making, and prototyping was generated. A paper-based, theoretical model was established and presented to graduating students, academics and practitioners. The results indicated that, while graduating students were interested in employing an approach based entirely on digital methods, the majority had doubts about its capacity to replace conventional and hybrid methods. The removal of paper-based sketching, the conventional hands-on experience when model making, and the cost of digital tools were identified as primary concerns. Although academics believed that the future of industrial design programmes would become increasingly digital, it was identified that current programmes were failing to exploit the opportunities afforded by these technologies fully.
History
School
- Design and Creative Arts
Department
- Design
Published in
International Journal of Art & Design EducationVolume
40Issue
1Pages
283 - 302Publisher
WileyVersion
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
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© NSEAD and John Wiley & Sons LtdPublisher statement
This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: ALDOY, N. and EVANS, M.A., 2021. An investigation into a digital strategy for industrial design education. International Journal of Art & Design Education, 40 (1), pp.283-302, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/jade.12334. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions.Acceptance date
2020-11-08Publication date
2020-12-10Copyright date
2020ISSN
1476-8062eISSN
1476-8070Publisher version
Language
- en