Valuing the art of Industrial Design: A Profile of the Sector and its Importance to Manufacturing, Technology, and Innovation

Nichols, Bonnie

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“…This is relevant for all design disciplines and links to Ergenoglu (2015) highlighting key competences for universal design education; namely, building empathy, social and legal awareness, awareness regarding the physical environment, universal design knowledge, inclusive and universal design settings, best practices, typological studies and developing new approaches and design solutions (Ergenoglu, 2015); all of which could be studied in further detail mapped against other design disciplines besides Industrial Design. Additionally, as a substantial amount of design research explores the views and status of design educators, design students, and designers (Dorst, 2015;Findeli, 2001;Kimbell, 2012;Nichols, 2013;van Diggelen & Bruns Alonso, 2015)…”

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Industrial Design education in Australia: a competence analysis across primary, secondary and tertiary education levels

Deighton

Kuys

Tyagi

2023

Int J Technol Des Educ

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Industrial Design education is poorly understood by laypeople but is present in Australian curricula from primary through to tertiary education levels. Designers and design researchers have long recognised the value of the broad-ranging skills, knowledge fields, and personal qualities design education imparts, but this understanding is generally not shared by the wider community who may see design as surface decoration. This research identifies indicators of value and relevance taken from the twenty-first century competences literature, then measures their presence in four different Industrial Design education settings. Two studies were undertaken. First, Industrial Design educators from primary, secondary, and tertiary levels were surveyed. Then diverse Industrial Design education stakeholders from education and non-education settings were interviewed. The studies gathered both quantitative and qualitative data on the value and relevance of current Industrial Design education in Australia. The result is a comprehensive analysis of the twenty-first century competences present in Australian Industrial Design education, which concludes with recommendations for ways Industrial Design education can benefit twenty-first century learners, as well as ways it should evolve to remain relevant.

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Industrial Design education in Australia: a competence analysis across primary, secondary and tertiary education levels

Deighton

Kuys

Tyagi

2023

Int J Technol Des Educ

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“…“I defy you to find another city of this size anywhere in the world,” said an HPM leader, “where [in] Milan and Paris and Cologne and London [you] say ‘High Point’ and people know what you're talking about.” Most people in these cities, to be sure, will not “know what you're talking about.” However, as with the larger global fashion industry that these European cities coordinate, High Point is instantly identifiable to a professional subculture of designers and tastemakers whose creative labor eventually filters down to living rooms. Indeed, the region around High Point claims the largest number of designers per capita in the United States (Florida ; Nichols ).…”

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“…However, as with the larger global fashion industry that these European cities coordinate, High Point is instantly identifiable to a professional subculture of designers and tastemakers whose creative labor eventually filters down to living rooms. Indeed, the region around High Point claims the largest number of designers per capita in the United States (Florida 2012;Nichols 2013).…”

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Big City Problems: Private Equity Investment, Transnational Users, and Local Mobilization in the Small City

Schlichtman

2020

City & Community

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High Point, North Carolina, once known as the “Home Furnishings Capital of the World” for its vast manufacturing complex, has suffered intense deindustrialization over the past 60 years. During this same time, however, High Point has competed with much more prominent cities to become the world's most important furniture exposition node and a major design, fashion, and merchandising center. Exploiting its inexpensive real estate—what amounts to a planetary rent gap—and its furniture design heritage, city leaders have aggressively offered the furniture world unprecedented control over its downtown landscape for the twice‐annual exposition. Over the past 35 years, however, there have also been growing efforts to combat the domination of the city by exchange value considerations privileged by outside real estate interests such as private equity firms Bain and Blackstone. This article documents, first, the loss of a resident‐centered downtown to the pursuit of exchange values and, second, the mobilizations to reclaim resident‐centered use values. As it does, it interrogates what the High Point case can teach us about the small city in the quickly transforming global context.

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The impact of external knowledge sourcing on innovation outcomes in rural and urban businesses in the U.S.

Dotzel

Faggian

2019

Growth and Change

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This paper examines the relationship between external knowledge sourcing and a diverse set of innovation outcomes in rural and urban establishments in the U.S. Existing studies in the broader knowledge management literature principally examine firms in a single industry, overwhelmingly rely on patent data to proxy for innovation, and cannot account for the innovations of businesses in rural American markets. By addressing these limitations using data from the 2014 Rural Establishment Innovation Survey of the USDA's Economic Research Service, this research provides novel insights into how externally acquired knowledge by American establishments may support innovation. Results of the analysis suggest that external knowledge sourcing may specifically promote product, process, and green innovation in U.S. firms. While collective results when external sources of information are divided by industry orientation fail to show that sources outside of a firm's industry play a dominant role in the innovation processes of American establishments in general, findings provide evidence for an outsized impact of these relationships within rural establishments specifically and suggest that external knowledge sourcing from extra‐industry organizations is most critical for promoting successful innovation in rural firms. Results additionally indicate that knowledge sourcing from non‐local organizations may be more important for supporting innovation in rural compared to urban markets.

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Valuing the art of Industrial Design: A Profile of the Sector and its Importance to Manufacturing, Technology, and Innovation

Abstract: Here's a snapshot of the business of industrial design as it is practiced today—courtesy of the National Endowment for the Arts. “Valuing the Art of Design”: An excerpt from the new NEA report.

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Industrial Design education in Australia: a competence analysis across primary, secondary and tertiary education levels

Industrial Design education in Australia: a competence analysis across primary, secondary and tertiary education levels

Big City Problems: Private Equity Investment, Transnational Users, and Local Mobilization in the Small City

The impact of external knowledge sourcing on innovation outcomes in rural and urban businesses in the U.S.

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