Dear Colleagues,
It is inevitable that an Industrial Design programme must be responsive to the context within which it is offered. My assumption is that a good programme must therefore, reflect the local context but must not ignore global realities. Otherwise its graduates will be cocooned in local context, fail to understand the dynamics of the global community, hence fail to design for the global market. Given this argument I would like to hear the group's view on the following questions:
1. Should an Industrial Design programme be responsive to a
specific context e.g. local context, global context?
2. If yes how do we balance local responsiveness with global
responsiveness? Should the programme be more responsive to the
local context than to global context or vice versa?
3. What are some of the factors that must be considered when
developing an Industrial Design programme for Developing
Countries?
4. What are some of the salient features of Industrial Design
programmes in developed countries (Industrialised Nation)?
5. What are some of the salient features of Industrial Design
programmes in developing countries?
6. What are the similarities and fundamental differences between
Industrial Design programmes for different continents and
countries?
7. If you were asked to develop an undergraduate or postgraduate
programme for the whole of Asia/Europe/Americas/Africa for
example what would be the pertinent factors that you would
consider?
8. What are the reference materials (Books, Journal, Websites,
Technical Reports etc) that one can be referred to about the
above issues?
I will appreciate your response to my questions above and am hoping to hear from you soon.
Regards
Samuel Khumomotse
Lecturer
Coordinator of B.Des Industrial Design
Department of Industrial Design & Technology
Faculty of Engineering & Technology
University of Botswana
P/Bag UB 0061
Gaborone, Botswana
Tel: +(267) 355 4316
Fax: +(267) 3952 309
Cell/Mobile: +(267) 72226610
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