Commitments of University Leaders to the Talloires Declaration: Are They Evidenced in Industrial Design Teaching and Learning?

摘要: By the act of signing Talloires Declaration, university presidents and chancellors worldwide committed themselves to educate young people towards being more sustainability-focused, with a lofty ambition change world for better. A good number these higher education institutions offer degrees in industrial design, career which has often been implicated its sizeable contributions mountains short-lived products packages landfills around world. This paper investigates whether promises made this declaration are permeating designers signatory universities. It looks into curricula student portfolios design uses content analysis understand how sustainability thinking is integrated product pedagogy.