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Towards A Truly Interdisciplinary Approach To Product Design Education, Colm O'Kane, Robert Tully
Towards A Truly Interdisciplinary Approach To Product Design Education, Colm O'Kane, Robert Tully
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The education of new designers and innovators who can develop new product and service interventions to meet society’s challenges in the 21st century is a complex task. Design itself lies at the intersection of technology, art and science [1]. Technological University Dublin (DIT)’s BSc (Hons) Product Design programme was developed to reflect this reality and was uniquely designed to operate across three distinct Colleges (Engineering, Creative Arts and Business) within DIT. Its key objective is to give students a firm grounding in these three areas and to produce graduates capable of understanding and executing all stages of the design process …