Industrial Design Engineering

Industrial Design Engineering

Module 1: Introduction Industrial Design
This contribution introduces students to the basics of the ethics and philosophy of design, as an integrated element of a general introduction to the field.

RESTS Teacher: Nolen Gertz (Section Philosophy)

Module 4: Smart Products - Ethics in Industrial Design
The course enables students to identify and deal with the specific responsibilities of industrial designers. They will learn both about existing guidelines (e.g. the codex of the German Association for Industrial Design) and about ethics as a systematic reflection on value judgments.

RESTS Teacher: Jan-Peter Bergen (Section Philosophy)

Module 5: Human-product relations
On the basis of an introduction to the theory of human-technology relations and the ethics of behavior-influencing design, students learn to analyze the relations between a product-in-design and its future users, to anticipate the impact of products on people’s behavior and experience, and to reflect on the ethics of behavior-influencing products.

RESTS Teacher: Nolen Gertz (Section Philosophy)

Module 6: Interdisciplinary Collaboration
In this joint module for Industrial Design Engineering, Industrial Engineering & Management, and Mechanical Engineering, students are introduced to a taxonomy of interdisciplinarity to stimulate critical reflection on disciplinary, multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, and transdisciplinary work. Students learn to better understand the epistemologies of their own disciplines in relation to other scientific fields. In addition, by describing a real lived experience of their own project group, and reflecting on other groups’ experiences, students gain deeper insight into the dynamics that are part of interdisciplinary teamwork.

RESTS Teacher: Andrea Kottmann (KiTeS)

Module 11: Philosophy and Sociology of Technology
In this module, students learn to reflect on the nature of design, in which ‘design for urban sustainability’ will be the central theme and ‘case’. They learn to reflect on basic concepts like design, the city, nature, and technology. For this reflection they acquaint themselves with conceptual tools like value-sensitive design and with theoretical notions they will apply to a product or service.

RESTS Teachers: Michael Nagenborg, Nolen Gertz (Section Philosophy), and Corelia Baibarac - Duignan (KiTeS)

Module 12: Reflection Science, Design & Technology
Module 11 will have a follow-up to module 12 in the form of a one-day workshop, during which students will apply the knowledge acquired in module 11 to reflect on their graduation project.

RESTS Teachers: Michael Nagenborg, Nolen Gertz (Section Philosophy), and Corelia Baibarac - Duignan (KiTeS)