TY - JOUR
T1 - Sustainable Product Design Education
T2 - Current Practice
AU - Watkins, Matthew
AU - Casamayor, Jose L.
AU - Ramirez, Mariano
AU - Moreno, Mariale
AU - Faludi, Jeremy
AU - Pigosso, Daniela C.A.
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - Current production and consumption patterns are unsustainable, causing irreversible damage to the environment and human health and well-being. Designers play a vital role in resolving this problem—their decisions affect product manufacturing, distribution, use, and disposal—and hence they must be aware of the positive and negative impacts of their design decisions. Sustainable product design education is key to developing the knowledge, skills, and responsibility required for future generations of product designers and their educators to make informed and responsible decisions within their practice, and also enhance the social and environmental performance of their creations and effectively communicate the value of such decisions within a commercial context. In this article, we present insights and challenges in contemporary sustainable product design education in higher education. We document the experiences of six academics involved in teaching and researching sustainable product design in the United Kingdom, Australia, Denmark, the Netherlands, and the United States. We hope to provide a useful reference for academics seeking to adopt sustainable product design practices in their existing programs, develop new sustainable product design education programs, or reflect on their own existing product design practice.
AB - Current production and consumption patterns are unsustainable, causing irreversible damage to the environment and human health and well-being. Designers play a vital role in resolving this problem—their decisions affect product manufacturing, distribution, use, and disposal—and hence they must be aware of the positive and negative impacts of their design decisions. Sustainable product design education is key to developing the knowledge, skills, and responsibility required for future generations of product designers and their educators to make informed and responsible decisions within their practice, and also enhance the social and environmental performance of their creations and effectively communicate the value of such decisions within a commercial context. In this article, we present insights and challenges in contemporary sustainable product design education in higher education. We document the experiences of six academics involved in teaching and researching sustainable product design in the United Kingdom, Australia, Denmark, the Netherlands, and the United States. We hope to provide a useful reference for academics seeking to adopt sustainable product design practices in their existing programs, develop new sustainable product design education programs, or reflect on their own existing product design practice.
KW - Design education
KW - Design for the circular economy
KW - Eco-design
KW - Sustainability
KW - Sustainable design
KW - Sustainable product design
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85120730945&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.sheji.2021.11.003
DO - 10.1016/j.sheji.2021.11.003
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85120730945
SN - 2405-8726
VL - 7
SP - 611
EP - 637
JO - She Ji
JF - She Ji
IS - 4
ER -