Connecting people, technology and environment by disrupting design curriculum : highlights on today industrial design vision to raise technology innovators and creative entrepreneurial leaders

This paper highlights eight sets of principles and variables the author used leading his industrial design team to reconnect academia with changing students and industry, and implement the vision for their present course curriculum makeover. The current post-industrial era marks a time for a new kind of design that should bond people, technology and environment better. Meanwhile constructivist, de-constructivist, and recently, connectivist discourses have eclipsed concepts on what is good design and challenged traditional design education. The task of raising creative professionals through design thinking and experimentation is further challenged by economic rationalism dogma of viability, speed and profit margins.