ID717 PRODUCT-SERVICE SYSTEMS FOR SUSTAINABLE SOLUTIONS

Course Code:1250717
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:Lecturer AYŞE İDİL GAZİULUSOY
Offered Semester:Fall or Spring Semesters.

Course Objectives


Course Content

Interdisciplinary team work to develop product-service systems as sustainable solutions for present and future needs. The relationship between industry/industrial design practice and sustainability/sustainable development; prevention/mitigation of environmental problems in industrial design profession; dematerialization of production and consumption; shift in design thinking from ´products´to ´solutions´; product-service systems; providing sustainable solutions through product-service systems; concept generation, scenario building and strategy development for sustainable product-service systems.


Course Learning Outcomes