Dear Ann and all,
Please find attached links to my studies on sustainability integration in industrial design education.
Ramirez M. 2007. Sustainability integration in industrial design education: a worldwide survey. Paper presented at the ConnectED International Conference on Design Education Sydney, Jul 9-12. Published in Zehner R & Reidsema C (eds), ConnectED 2007 Conference Proceedings. Sydney: University of New South Wales. ISBN 9780646481470.
http://www.fbe.unsw.edu.au/staff/mariano.ramirez/CONNECTED2007-idschoolsworldwide2r.pdf
Ramirez M. 2006. Sustainability in the education of industrial designers: the case for Australia. International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education. Vol 7 No 2 pp 189-202. ISSN 14676370 http://www.emeraldinsight.com/Insight/viewPDF.jsp?Filename=html/Output/Published/EmeraldFullTextArticle/Pdf/2490070206.pdf
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Hello All,
David points out that this discussion has been going on in two lists, and I have made some comments over on SUSDESIGNTEACH (I list these resources FYI below). I agree with Ken that this topic requires some original research, and that the area of interest is probably the teaching of sustainability in design programs (I believe the interest was in product design). And yes, the pioneers are somewhat well established, but I guess Gulden and some of the rest of us are interested in what happened after the origins--how sustainable design education evolved over the past 15 or 20 years.
A way to approach such research, as Ken suggests, is to interview those of us who have been teaching sustainable design over the past decades (myself only one decade) to find out what our courses have offered, and why. One way to find a range of sources is to look at surveys on sustainable design education and to look at how resources aimed explicitly at teaching sustainable design have been taken up.
In terms of resources, the "Okala: Learning Ecological Design" guide is an interesting example because it was done in conjunction with the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA) and they have tracked the requests for the guide they've had from higher education institutions. In addition, the authors, Philip White (Arizona State University), Louise St. Pierre (Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design) and Steve Belletire (Ball State University), have now produced two editions of the guide (2004 and 2007), suggesting they may have a sense of evolution in the field from the interactions they've had around the two editions.
Part of the question about the history must be about the content -- what is taught? For example the content of the teaching guide(2007) I produce for my book differs from guides like Okala (or Lewis and Gertsakis' "Design + Environment" 2001) because although my guide looks at bigger picture questions surrounding ecological design, I include heavy doses of economic and cultural aspects of sustainable design. My own view is that these later two important and difficult components are still relatively new to sustainable design but steadily gaining ground. Another part of the question, arguably a much more difficult part, must also be about the best ways to teach these subjects.
The value of surveys (e.g. Metropolis) is their snapshot view of what's going on at a particular time, as well as leads for interviews (Metropolis listed all respondents). IDSA has an "envrionment" special interest group which may have its own survey results on the field of sustainable design education. My suspicion is that many of the universities that offer courses on sustainable design have conducted their own surveys, if only to clarify their own "position" relative to the "competing" universities. These types of informal surveys are of course not published, but you might find out about them through an interviewing process.
FYI previous resources mentioned:
- Metropolis ran a survey on sustainable design education and reported the results in the August 2003 issue, an online version of the results is here
http://www.metropolismag.com/story/20040301/sustainable-design-2003-school-survey
- A good survey of ecological design in architectural education was done under the auspices of the AIA's Committee on the Environment, "Ecology and Design: Ecological Literacy in Architecture Education" 2006
http://www.aia.org/practicing/groups/kc/AIAS074665
I haven't seen anything comparable for industrial design
- Anne Chick had an article in the International Journal of Art and Design Education vol 19 no 2, 2000 "Preparing British Design Undergraduates for the Challenge of Sustainable Development" -- I imagine there must have been a few related articles since then in this journal. There is also the annual international conference on design education which must have had a few tracks on sustainability.
Best,
Ann Thorpe
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