Developing Design Education Program concerning Sustainable Fashion

Fashion Thinking: Fashion Practices and Sustainable Interaction Design

Broadly defined, “fashion” refers to the symbolic, aesthetic, and cultural meanings that objects carry, especially the ways in which people use objects to express their taste, lifestyle, social status and belonging to a community. We don’t ordinarily think of fashion as a positive force for sustainable practices in the design of products and services. One imagines that fashion drives consumptio...

fashion design in developing countries investigating the role of participatory design as an alternative for fashion design methods

in recent years, fashion has been introduced as a prominent taste which is imposed by owners of this industry to the society. recently change of consumption patterns have been increased rapidly, while changes in fashion industry has also changed industries and economies of these countries as well. through changes in global relationships and structures, omitting industrial concentrated productio...

Design for MOSIS Education Program

Microelectronic design cooperative education program

We describe our experiences in using microelectronic design projects as cooperative education experiences for electrical engineering majors. We discuss funding of the necessary VLSI design laboratory and describe our course offerings. We believe our “alternative co-op” program is of value to VLSI educators with limited resources who are looking for ways to provide students with an alternative t...

Greening academia: developing sustainable waste management at Higher Education Institutions.

Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) are often the size of small municipalities. Worldwide, the higher education (HE) sector has expanded phenomenally; for example, since the 1960s, the United Kingdom (UK) HE system has expanded sixfold to >2.4 million students. As a consequence, the overall production of waste at HEIs throughout the world is very large and presents significant challenges as th...