Cultural affordance of products: coverage within industrial design education

摘要: Products are regarded as possessing not only physical properties but also subjective qualities such culturally-based user preferences. To communicate these cultural aspects, products must "afford" conversation with their intended users using some type of language. Being initiators product creation, industrial designers supposed to facilitate the communication products' and non-physical attributes in a self-explanatory way. In this paper, authors argue that if affordance is deemed be important, then design education accordingly cover topic curricula. effect, we examined courses study for from 39 universities worldwide, determine relationship between culture convincingly addressed within training designers. It found majority curricula suffer relative lack subjects related links design. This paper concludes propositions integrate enhance curricular structure degree programs.