Guiding principles for university and nonprofit organization collaboration in industrial design education

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2024-6-8

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Yalman Yıldırım, Zeynep

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There is a transformation towards collaboration at the local and global levels to attain social innovation and sustainable development. Examples of these collaborations are university–NPO collaborations that take place in industrial design education between tutors, students, and nonprofit organizations. These initiatives aim to contribute to the education of future industrial designers and society’s welfare, simultaneously. However, as in every type of collaboration, there are many challenges associated with university–NPO collaborations in industrial design education that should be explored and addressed. This thesis aims to understand the current nature of university–NPO collaboration in the industrial design education context in a developing country, Turkey. To fulfill this aim, this study first reveals the collaborations that took place between 2010 and 2020 through a survey and then conducts semi-structured interviews with 71 participants involving all three stakeholders (i.e., tutors, students, and NPOs) in the research design. This thesis contributes to knowledge by dividing university-NPO collaborations into three according to a driver-based modeling approach based on their initiation and motivations of the initiating stakeholder. These models are, namely, tutor-driven, NPO-driven, and student-driven collaboration models. Furthermore, it explores these collaborations comprehensively, the motivations, expectations, contributions, benefits, and challenges of each actor. This thesis offers i) seven guiding principles (protocol) and ii) eight nice-to-have key dimensions as ways to improve these collaborations which are presented as the main practical contributions of the thesis.

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Design Collaboration, University-Nonprofit Collaboration, Industrial Design Education, Design for Nonprofit Organizations, Collaboration Models

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/110410

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Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Thesis