In Taiwan's current art and design education programs, students are zealous about creation and design and often overlook the importance of expressing the concept of content of their works via written explanations.

Advanced topics in regular course program may promote a quality education and more prepared professionals. In this paper it is demonstrated how a requirements management framework focused on sustainability, proposed as a post-graduation thesis, was applied in product development projects of a regular graduation course.

A case study of problem seeking and problem solving using User Centered Design and biomimicry. Adequate problem seeking and problem solving are fundamental for creative breakthroughs in design. Creativity is enhanced in systems that nurture, recognise and validate innovation.

According to the feedback of interviewed enterprises, modern Chinese design education can not meet practical demands for cultivating three levels of design expertise. Three main solutions, which implied three levels of designer’s knowledge: skills, rules and experience, were utilised in practice to bridge the gap.

Design education is based on the paradigm of innovation defined as a mere application of science. This paper aims at showing that such a point of view is the result of an intellectual perspective which has thrown techniques out of science and, thus, has neglected a specific kind of rationality. Integrating this kind of rationality in the design education drives us to invent "pedagogy of the adventure".

This paper offers an argument in favour of Research through Design as a valid research approach by situating it within a Constructionist epistemological perspective. It suggests a Grounded Theory methodology with a Postmodernist turn through a case study.

Presented at the Icsid Design Education Conference 2009 in Singapore, this paper asserts that design curricula in the future need to include comprehensive design skills and also be underpinned by social ecology; moving design education away from a singular focus on commercialism and toward enhancing human flourishing and collaboration with multiple and diverse stakeholders, cultures, societies and disciplines.

Emily Pilloton, a Keynote Speaker at the Icsid World Design Congress 2009 in Singapore, speaks with Core 77 partner Allan Chochinov about some of her many projects and endeavours, including founding a ground-breaking non-profit, the publication of an inspiring book and upcoming mobile Education Summit tours.

As a graduate project for the IM Masters in Conceptual Design in Context from the Design Academy Eindhoven, Andrea Trimarchi and Simone Farresin have developed a project inspired by both the history and culture of one Sicilian city. The result is a unique collection of traditionally inspired, hand-crafted vessels that comment on current prejudice towards recent immigrants, who have in fact been a part of the area's history for centuries.

Carleton University (Canada) has teamed with the village of Batawa to create a sustainable community that will act as a model for the world. As part of their 2009 summer course work, Carleton Architecture and Industrial Design students worked on-site creating different visions, designs and prototypes for the village.