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.
A Case Study For A Flipped, Open Learning Initiative Course
How do design educators make change happen to address new challenges? Currently, design educators are caught between challenges: first, teaching well-established design traditions based on craft and making; and second, training students to situate their artifact making within transitional
Author: Peter Scupelli, Judy Brooks, Arnold Wasserman
Company / School: Carnegie Mellon University, Collective Invention
- 2016
- Paper Type: Case Study
- Education Symposium Theme: Making Things Happen
Opportunities And Challenges For Industrial Design Education
In the early days of industrial design, the work was primarily focused upon physical products. Today, however, designers work on organizational structure and social problems, on interaction, service, and experience design. Many problems involve complex social and political issues.
Author: Eric Anderson
Company / School: Carnegie Mellon University
- 2016
- Paper Type: Academic Research
- Education Symposium Theme: Making Things Happen
Over the last 20 years, terms such as Free Software and Open Source are populating our digital experience. Other than small ideological distinctions, both are defined as the legal freedom to use, study, distribute and modify a piece of
Author: Paul Cardini
Company / School: Rhode Island School of Design
- 2016
- Paper Type: Academic Research
- Education Symposium Theme: Making Things Happen
The Integration Of Product Portfolio Framework To Industrial Design Studio Curriculum
This paper presents a study that proposes the integration of a product portfolio framework, a common marketing and business planning tool, with a product design curriculum. Design educators often plan studio teaching and projects focused on a single product.
Author: Tsai Lu Liu, Russell Flinchum, PhD, Yingying Sun, Zuoguang Wu
Company / School: North Carolina State University
- 2016
- Paper Type: Case Study
- Education Symposium Theme: Making Things Happen
How A Design Basics Workshop Ignited The World
This case study describes a design basics class that taught design to a thousand non-designers in a corporation, in 10 different cities across six countries, all in just one year. The paper will explore how a multi-national software company
Author: Visvapriya Sathiyam, Simon Stolz, Christian Stark
Company / School: Design Whizz Program, SAP SE
- 2016
- Paper Type: Case Study
- Education Symposium Theme: Making Things Happen
The Future Of Design Education
Trends. This short word encompasses a great deal. To a designer, it defines a whole category of insights that are fundamental to good, usable, and innovative design. There are many trends that are obvious, and readily referenced such as
Author: Lauren Platts
Company / School: Purdue University
- 2015
- Paper Type: Case Study
- Education Symposium Theme: Designing the Future of Education
Piloting Design Education in a Developing World Context
Handicraft and small cottage industries in Nepal have taken an enormous beating over recent decades, predominantly due to stagnant product development. As just one example, at its height in the early 2000s, the pashmina industry in Nepal generated revenues
Author: Ann-Marie Conrado
Company / School: University of Notre Dame
- 2015
- Paper Type: Case Study
- Education Symposium Theme: Designing the Future of Education
Corporate Education Of Software Design Thinkers
The digital era is maturing. Until recently, technology companies relied on advancement of computing performance to differentiate new products and services. Today, processing performance has caught up with the speed of human thought and cloud computing has begun to
Author: Joni Saylor
- 2015
- Paper Type: Case Study
- Education Symposium Theme: Designing the Future of Education
What We Can Learn From Cooking
It is proven vital to nurture a creative and curious examination of the world in students at a young age. Brief and immersive design workshops and programs tailored to grade school students offer opportunities in core skill- building and
Author: Amy Kern, Dan Griner, Ted Shin
Company / School: Metropolitan State University of Denver
- 2015
- Paper Type: Academic Research
- Education Symposium Theme: Designing the Future of Education
Research Expanding Aging Experience Suit For Educational Purposes
With more and more aging issues under the contemporary circumstances, designers, researchers, and design educators need to pay attention to these issues in relation to the product design field. As an important aspect of developing design criteria, designing for
Author: Byungsoo Kim, Hongyang Liu, Sharon Joines
Company / School: Research in Ergonomics and Design (RED) Laboratory, College of Design, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
- 2015
- Education Symposium Theme: Designing the Future of Education