Conference Aim
The E&PDE conference will bring together representatives from education and industry who have an interest in sharing new perspectives on design education. The conference will provide a forum for educators, practitioners and students from product development, engineering and industrial design, together with industry to discuss current educational issues and the nature of design education now and in the future. This year's conference theme is Design Education - Growing our Future and aims to;
- Provide a broad forum for designers of all disciplines and vocations.
- Explore how design education may best promote and encourage Sustainable Growth.
- Seek innovative solutions to a better world through "best practices" in engineering design.
- Encourage innovation through industrial collaboration.
- Embed the methodology of design in our curricula.
- Discuss how design education may best be used to influence economic recovery and growth.
- Broadening and expanding the student experience through international student exchange.
- Discuss the role designers may play in influencing our economic and political futures.
These aims will be addressed through the following conference topics
- Design education in practice
- Design methodology in education
- Best practice in design education
- Technology transfer through design
- Design education and industry
- Design education and business
- Creativity in design education
- International student collaboration
- Teaching design methodologies
- Research networks for design educators
- Innovation in design education curricula
- Postgraduate design education
- Technology in design education
- Design education and design cultures
- Learning spaces
In keeping with the inclusive ethos of the E&PDE conference and to broaden the opportunities to link design and business by creativity and innovation other stream proposals are welcomed. We invite you to send your proposals for other relevant topics to ied@ied.org.uk.