Sustainability as an Educational Concern: A Study on Industrial Design Curricula

2009-04-09
Turhan, Senem
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With the emergence of sustainability, it became an important concern for curricula of industrial design education as for many other educational structures. Currently, lots of higher education institutions offer courses focusing on sustainability for various objectives. This study deals with the current situation of industrial design education in the world by means of sustainability as an educational concern. It starts with the examination of a variety of sustainable development definitions and continues with the discussion on the development of sustainability education and its possible effects on the future. The study also presents an overview of the current structures/formations of teaching sustainability in industrial design programs of ICSID member universities by scrutinizing their informational materials and web sites.
Sustainability, İndustrial design, Design education, industrial design curricula
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/78731
Department of Industrial Design, Conference / Seminar

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S. Turhan, “Sustainability as an Educational Concern: A Study on Industrial Design Curricula,” 2009, Accessed: 00, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/78731.
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