Hello, Klaus, Nicola, Ken, and others!
In the perspective of extending the meaning of the concept
"Industrial/product design", from the relatively limited 17th-20th
century western industry context to a more expanded contemporary context
of several other areas of professional involvement, a few years ago we
(then at the University of Montreal) suggested instead the adoption and
use of the following more generic expressions (in French, for which
English and/or other languages equivalent could be coined if
appropriate):
- Conception de produits (instead of Industrial/product design)
- Concepteur de produits (instead of industrial designer, or designer in
general, with specific sub-field added, eventually)
"Produits" may mean here any artifact (product of any human
contrivance), both material and immaterial, in the sense of the few
examples suggested below by Klaus.
Season greetings to all!
Francois
Montreal
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Original post from Klaus:
niicola,
yes, it may help you realize what is carried over from the industrial
area,
but i find the attribute "industrial" unnecessarily confining by
committing
yourself to an industrial/material production perspective. as such, it
excludes: designing human interfaces, designing content for websites,
designing political campaigns, designing an organization, designing a
corporate design strategy, etc. these all are aspects of design
increasingly worth attending to.
klaus
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