Sustainability in the education of industrial designers: the case for Australia

摘要: Purpose – The paper intends to determine the extent which environmental sustainability issues are integrated in curricula of industrial design programs Australian universities.Design/methodology/approach Industrial lecturers and program heads were invited participate a web‐based survey on their university's curricula. Online university handbooks also examined courses cover aspects. Survey results then tabulated analysed using descriptive statistics.Findings study shows that, while there is concern that sustainable development important relevant courses, permeation sensitivity through most curricula, indeed among academics, only starting gain ground. Comparative examination curricular structures universities offering degree product revealed average, 12 out every 1...