ID561 PRODUCT DESIGN FOR SUSTAINABILITY
| Course Code: | 1250561 |
| METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): | 3 (2.00 - 2.00) |
| ECTS Credit: | 8.0 |
| Department: | Industrial Design |
| Language of Instruction: | English |
| Level of Study: | Graduate |
| Course Coordinator: | Prof.Dr. ÇAĞLA DOĞAN |
| Offered Semester: | Fall and Spring Semesters. |
Course Objectives
To examine the nature of sustainability in order to develop an understanding of its applicability to the field of product design.
To reflect on design for sustainability considerations.
Course Content
Definition of approaches, concepts and insights into product design, sustainability and contemporary issues by addressing three strands of sustainability,ecological, economic and ethical. Review of various systems thinking and design-based approaches as they relate to sustainability and product design. Design and conduct of research projects by students through examining the nature of objects and their relationship to sustainability within a design-centered approach.
Course Learning Outcomes
The course aiming at the graduate level will help graduate students:
- have a better understanding of both systems thinking and design-based approaches (e.g. Social Innovation, Integrated Scales, Enduring Design, Half-way design and Personalization, Open Design, Biomimicry, etc.).
- provide a medium for critical discussion and creative reflection on these approaches.
- develop and assess current design considerations for sustainability
- blending scales of design and production;
- aesthetically adaptable and tailored to local/regional materials and manufacturing capabilities for post-use services at the local batch-production scale such as repair, re-use, upgrade;
- transparency and authenticity through facilitating user comprehension and engagement;
- continuously evolving products generating variety and diversity.
Program Outcomes Matrix
| Level of Contribution | |||||
| # | Program Outcomes | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 1 | Identifying research areas in distinct and contemporary topics and formulating research problems; | ✔ | |||
| 2 | Being competent in the research process, process planning, managing, analyzing data, and correctly interpreting findings; | ✔ | |||
| 3 | Transforming knowledge in the field and research results into strategies, politics, methods and/or decisions; | ✔ | |||
| 4 | Transferring research findings into design education and practice; | ✔ | |||
| 5 | Disseminating generated knowledge, making publications and presenting them; | ✔ | |||
| 6 | Having general knowledge in the field of design, having covered the literature and developing expertise in specific topics; | ✔ | |||
| 7 | Having responsibility towards own research, respecting and practicing research ethics; | ✔ | |||
| 8 | Having work discipline and skills in time planning; | ✔ | |||
| 9 | Having skills in oral, written and visual communication; | ✔ | |||
| 10 | Open to continuous education and self-development, having high professional motivation; | ✔ | |||
| 11 | Open and willing to share knowledge and skills with stakeholders; | ✔ | |||
| 12 | Being critical, able to make self-criticism, reflecting objective and unprejudiced thinking into their own work; | ✔ | |||
| 13 | Synthesising knowledge from different disciplines to use in one?s own field and using it for generating new knowledge. | ✔ | |||
0: No Contribution 1: Little Contribution 2: Partial Contribution 3: Full Contribution