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- Title
- The design university
- Author(s)
- Friedman, Ken
- Abstract
- University-level design education involves two great responsibilities. The first is to structure an effective learning process to educate tomorrow's designers. The second is contributing to the knowledge the field through basic, applied, and clinical research. Design is a broad field of making and planning disciplines. These include industrial design, graphic design, textile design, furniture design, information design, process design, product design, interface design, transportation design, systems design, urban design, design leadership and design management and well as architecture, engineering, information technology, and computer science.
- Publication type
- Book chapter
- Source
- Cumulus working papers Tallinn / Yrjo Sotamaa, Eija Salmi and Jaana Lantto (eds.), pp. 40-46
- Publication year
- 2003
- Keyword(s)
- Colleges; Design education; Design identity; Design studies; Professional design; Universities
- Publisher
- University of Art and Design Helsinki
- ISSN
- 1456-307X (series ISSN)
- ISBN
- 9515580412
- Publisher URL
- http://www.cumulusassociation.org/component/content/1004-cumulus-working-papers-tallinn-1003/162
- Copyright
- Copyright © University of Art and Design Helsinki and Ken Friedman. Published version of this paper reproduced with the kind permission of the publisher.
- Additional information
- This chapter appears as part of the Cumulus working papers series G, Cumulus working papers Talinn.
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