Resources produced by the School of Industrial Design’s Seminar class (IDES 4001).  Students organize a seminar with design professionals and other community experts including student and professional presentations, interaction, and discussion. The topic varies from year to year but the focus is on writing, discussion, and debate.

2023-2024 WonJoon Chung
(section A) 

Sunil Achia
(section B)

Role industrial design play in the era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution

Section A – AI and the Design Process; Environmental Sustainability in Electric Vehicles; VAMR in the 4th Industrial Revolution; Techno-Morality in the 4th Industrial Revolution; Additive Manufacturing & Industrial Design; ID Education’s Adaptation for the 4th Industrial Revolution; Ethics and Inclusivity; Embracing AR & VR Technologies

Entrepreneurship is the ability to transform an idea into a viable business opportunity
by embracing risk

Section B – Innovation, Marketing, and The Market; Leadership, Culture, Vision, Values; Entrepreneurs Across the World; The Human Aspects of Being An Entrepreneur; AI Technology in Entrepreneurship; Entrepreneurial Operating Systems – For Designers

 

section A
E-BOOK  

section B
E-BOOK

2022-2023 Chiara Del Gaudio
(section A) 

WonJoon Chung
(section B)

Between Theory & Practice

Section A – Contemporary Design: co-design, design for social innovation, speculative and critical design, and gender-inclusive design

Section B – Enhancements through theoretical perspectives

section A
E-BOOK 

section A and B
Posters

2021-2022 Thomas Garvey Design for the Unimagined

(responses in extreme times, technologies for social and environmental benefit, birth of new learning)

Posters
2020-2021 Thomas Garvey A Space in Time for the Creative Mind 

(The role of nature in creativity)

Posters
2019-2020 Chiara Del Gaudio Design for Social Innovation

(smart cities, community design, co-housing, indigenous culture, and others)

E-BOOK