IDSA publishes a selection of peer-reviewed academic education papers each year. These are collected during a community-wide open call period when design educators and practitioners submit materials for review by a group of judges serving on IDSA’s Academic Jury. The program also helps provide content for the annual Education Symposium, where some authors are invited to present their work from the stage to a live audience. To view the full Education Papers jury please visit meet the jury page.
By Observation, Experience, And Inquiry
Henry Dreyfuss, one of the founders of industrial design, said, “The products we design are going to be ridden in, sat upon, looked at, talked into, activated, operated, or in some way used by people individually or en masse.
Author: Paul Skaggs
Company / School: Brigham Young University
- 2018
- Paper Type: Case Study
- Education Symposium Theme: Design For ____
Exploration Into Responsible Industrial Design (rid)
This paper explores the inevitable change of Industrial design practices due to the decline of natural resources and the increasing necessity to focus on sustainable practices. Design methods like Design for Disassembly and Circular Economy will become common practice.
Author: Christopher Sho Taylon Beard
- 2018
- Paper Type: Academic Research
- Education Symposium Theme: Design For ____
Harnessing The Power Of People Through Collaborative Sketching
Sketching is a primary means for designers to rapidly visualize their ideas (Eissen, 2016). One of the most effective ways to develop or refine sketch ideas further is by seeking feedback from people who are different from us because
Author: George K. Chow
Company / School: University of Houston
- 2018
- Paper Type: Case Study
- Education Symposium Theme: Design For ____
Critical Thinking About Design Thinking
If there are wicked problems, there must also be good problems and also, perhaps, bad problems – those not quite so wicked. If there is such a thing as design thinking, there must also be other types of thinking.
Author: Herb Bentz
Company / School: Form3 Design Inc.
- 2018
- Paper Type: Academic Research
- Education Symposium Theme: Design For ____
13 Guidelines Overlooked By New Id Students
A new Industrial Design student may hear repeated reminders to apply the basic design thinking skills he or she has been taught. But, it is an easy thing to overlook guidelines when the repercussions are not clear, or not
Author: Percy Hooper
Company / School: North Carolina State University
- 2017
- Education Symposium Theme: Emergent Pedagogy in Design
Design Tools For Navigating Our Innate Human Needs In The Modern Workplace
“Touch hunger” describes the innate desire for healthy human touch. While this need has been studied in historically extreme situations such as solitary confinement in prisons and failure to thrive in orphaned infants, it is rarely discussed in the
Author: Ari Elefterin
Company / School: Parsons The New School for Design
- 2017
- Paper Type: Academic Research
- Education Symposium Theme: Emergent Pedagogy in Design
An Empathy Focused Framework In Design Studio Teaching
Empathy development has been recognized, discussed and implemented in design practice for more than 20 years. Although empathy is also addressed in design education, the understanding of its potential impact on students’ creativity and the depth of its application
Author: Jeff Feng
Company / School: University of Houston, USA
- 2017
- Paper Type: Case Study
- Education Symposium Theme: Emergent Pedagogy in Design
Emerging Opportunities
Design for Durability is an ecodesign strategy that holds tremendous, largely untapped potential to support environmental quality, for fundamental physical reasons. It can help overcome the insidious problem of planned obsolescence. Businesses, product designers, design engineers, and many private
Author: Philip White
Company / School: Arizona State University
- 2017
- Education Symposium Theme: Emergent Pedagogy in Design
A Formative Research Reference In Industrial Design Education
The development of research projects that actively involve undergraduate students is a challenging activity. Formative research implies from its leaders the understanding of the scientific exercise and its results as a means and not as an end. The Experimental
Author: Andrés Valencia-Escobar, Ever Patiño, Alejandro Zuleta, Diana Urdinola, and David Torreblanca
Company / School: Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana – Medellín – Colombia
- 2017
- Education Symposium Theme: Emergent Pedagogy in Design
Changing The Paradigm Of Visual Thought Processing Through Generative Sketchnoting
This paper explores the potential of Generative Sketchnoting as a visual framework for faster problem framing and leaner high-level concept development. Differentiating traditional sketchnoting from generative sketchnoting. The former is a re-active method of visually capturing spoken content through
Author: Verena Paepcke-Hjeltness, IDSA and Kevin Henry, IDSA
Company / School: Iowa State University, Columbia College Chicago
- 2017
- Paper Type: Case Study
- Education Symposium Theme: Emergent Pedagogy in Design