Soumitri's Major Project Resources

Often students choose to do some exploratory work on their own – and are motivated by a desire to use their time in university for their reading and theoretical explorations. This is the most popular trajectory of students in most design courses ( and also Architecture and Interior in the school) and results in a unique form of theoretical exploration. Ban’s Masters – Imagining a bicycle friendly Melbourne – is a project quite similar to the stuff done by design students in their final year.

The Research objectives of this kind of work could be:
1. To advance the study of industrial design - to undertake research across a spectrum of design issues, from design processes and methods, to design problems concerning the Design theory, practice and innovation, Technology and design for the environment and Universal design and biomedical equipment design.
2. To conduct fundamental and applied research to enrich their scholarship and understanding of specific areas of interest within the fields of design.

Some popular and typical areas of exploration tend to be:
1. On Form and Styling
2. The Digital in Industrial Design
3. History: ID in Victoria/ Australia
4. Future of Industrial Design
5. Sustainability
6. Design in Context and Marginal Discourses: Such as exploring the local
7. Contemporary discourses: Technology, culture/ society, ..

METU (Middle East Technical University, Turkey) in their site give a whole list of abstracts (for PG work), which could translate into concerns. Also see GRC of our school for abstracts.

Some Sample Topics, to give you an idea of what these projects look like. Just plucked out randomly from design schools around the world:
1. Developing CAD modelling strategies for product designers
2. Culture-centered design approach for Design
3. Use of Social Research Methods in Design
4. Designing e-learning environments and on-line courses for adults: considering communication issues and differences in learning styles
5. An inclusive approach to design: optimising user-involvement in designing through computer-based models
6. Sustainable materials in consumer products