Preparing future designers for new market economies

Mauricio Novoa, Robert B. Zehner, Carl Reidsema

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    Abstract

    ![CDATA[In a freer global market economy, design, product development and production are no longer framed by geographical boundaries. Increasingly, the creative process requires more specialized solutions coordinated by the work of multi and interdisciplinary project teams that no longer exercise their professions or trade in close by locations. In addition, there is a raising trend towards shifting and segmenting projects between suppliers, teams, production and their components according to price, labour cost and speed of delivery. A number of areas and principles (i.e. business relationships, project management, quality control, even loyalty to a product and between employers and employees) need re-interpretation as more and more work is mediated by technology. Both in education and professional practice, design workers and students need to understand and constantly update their expertise to take advantage of new opportunities across different professions, trades, cultures, languages and nations. International Design Studio 4 (IDS4) is a third year unit project led by Lecturer Mauricio Novoa from University of Western Sydney (UWS) and currently developed as a joint effort with Metropolitan University of Technology, Chile (UTEM). It intends to prepare our future designers on the new collaborative and distributed design and manufacturing circumstances they will encounter once they start their professional life.]]
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationProceedings of ConnectED 2007 International Conference on Design Education
    PublisherUniversity of New South Wales
    Number of pages1
    ISBN (Print)9780646481470
    Publication statusPublished - 2007
    EventConnectED International Conference on Design Education -
    Duration: 9 Jul 2007 → …

    Conference

    ConferenceConnectED International Conference on Design Education
    Period9/07/07 → …

    Keywords

    • Western Sydney University
    • education and globalization
    • industrial design
    • education
    • education, higher
    • New South Wales
    • Australia
    • university students
    • Western Sydney (N.S.W.)
    • Centre for Western Sydney
    • creativity

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