Industrial Design: A Phoenix Reborn From The Ashes Of Technology Education: A Case History

摘要

"Said to live for 500 or 1461 years (depending on the source), the phoenix is a bird with beautiful gold and red plumage. At the end of its life-cycle the phoenix builds itself a nest of cinnamon twigs that it then ignites; both nest and bird burn fiercely and are reduced to ashes, from which a new, young phoenix arises." Like the phoenix, technology education (TE) can, under the right circumstances, give life to new programs-curricula with different emphases and directions from technology education, yet sharing a common heritage: the belief that applied technology will continue to shape our world. How that shaping process takes place-and the problems that it can solve-defines the industrial design phoenix as an increasingly formidable, emerging area of study.