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.
Adapting Education + Industry Collaboration For Covid And Beyond
During the COVID-era, design educators, design students, and design practitioners alike have been forced to adapt their creative practices to online learning and working modalities. We, an industrial design program that has come to rely on frequent engagement with
Author: William Nickley / Hazal Gümüş Çiftçi / Sébastien Proulx
Company / School: The Ohio State University
- 2021
- Paper Type: Case Study
- Education Symposium Theme: Breaking Down Barriers
A Proposal For Clarity In The Design Curriculum, Supported By Theory And Mastered Through Studio Practice
The rapid expansion of the design pluriverse, as evidenced in both academia and industry, is both wildly impressive and startlingly alarming. Impressive because this sudden outgrowth, driven largely by the adoption of design methods in disciplines ranging from business
Author: James Rudolph
- 2021
- Paper Type: Academic Research
- Education Symposium Theme: Breaking Down Barriers
Promoting Engagement Through Inclusive Design For Individuals Living With Intellectual Disabilities
Inclusive design uses the understanding of diversity in populations to create products that are accessible and usable by as many people as reasonably possible. Collaboration with interdisciplinary professionals and the users of the design products or environments are crucial
Author: Cynthia Jih, Elizabeth Shirrell, Kimberly Mollo, Michael Barrett
- 2021
- Paper Type: Student Research
- Education Symposium Theme: Breaking Down Barriers
Reframing The Value Of Plastics Through Educational Game Design
Research demonstrates how socially modeled consumer behaviors can be adapted with incentives; to encourage active learning of often tedious recycling rules, we present an interactive game called “WishCycle” for mobile devices that teaches players how to distinguish common plastics
Author: Steve Love, Joshua Smith, George Chow, Dr. EunSook Kwon
- 2021
- Paper Type: Student Research
- Education Symposium Theme: Breaking Down Barriers
Innovating design through collaboration between Industrial Design & Occupational Therapy
Combining industrial design and occupational therapy graduate students together to create adaptive products for individuals living with Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva (FOP) offers a unique opportunity to facilitate an interdisciplinary approach that better meets the needs of end-users and reinforces
Author: Sarah McNabb, Michael Patrick Barrett, Eric Schneider, Tod Corlett & Kimberly Mollo
Company / School: Thomas Jefferson University
- 2020
- Education Symposium Theme: Design Exchange: Spanning the academic-practice divide
A Framework For Addressing The Lack Of Leadership Education And Training In The Design Curriculum
The question regarding the nature and viability of design as a field of study and an academic discipline has been hotly debated since the early 20th century. The objectives, principles, and methodologies of design education are perhaps more relevant
Author: James Rudolph
Company / School: University of Notre Dame
- 2020
- Education Symposium Theme: Design Exchange: Spanning the academic-practice divide
Using A Commercial Cislunar Space Development Project As An Example
The purpose of the study is to experiment with the core principles, processes, and tools of Design Thinking and Systems Engineering through the application of methodologies from these fields to a commercial cislunar space development project. The paper briefly
Author: Sheng-Hung Lee and John Liu
Company / School: MIT AgeLab
- 2020
- Education Symposium Theme: Design Exchange: Spanning the academic-practice divide
A Case-study In Search Of A More Adaptive Method For Academia-industry Collaboration In Peri-pandemic & Post-pandemic Norms
This paper discusses the value of collaborations between academia and the industry to improve the design education and implementation of successful methodologies by identifying the changing sectoral and educational needs of the industrial designer. The effects of the pandemic
Author: Mekin Elçioğlu, PhD
Company / School: Kansas State University
- 2020
- Education Symposium Theme: Design Exchange: Spanning the academic-practice divide
A Case Study Examining Skill Development In An Undergraduate Invention Accelerator Program
The Invent@SU invention accelerator teaches collaborative problem solving and necessary communication skills to students from multiple majors during an intensive six-week summer program. This iteration of the program blends both engineering and industrial design methodologies to enable students to
Author: Louise R Manfredi, PhD
Company / School: Syracuse University
- 2020
- Education Symposium Theme: Design Exchange: Spanning the academic-practice divide
Essentialism And Industrial Design Education
COVID-19 is just the latest crisis to affect Industrial Design education. Tuition rates, student debt, and enrollment numbers have plagued higher education for decades, and these issues are expected to continue for the foreseeable future. COVID-19, however, poses unique
Author: Michael Elwell
Company / School: Richmond Institute for Design + Innovation at Western Michigan University
- 2020
- Education Symposium Theme: Design Exchange: Spanning the academic-practice divide