DRS2012 Bangkok Proceedings Vol 4 - Design Research Society

1920 Conference Proceedings
DRS 2012 Bangkok
Chulalongkorn University
Bangkok, Thailand, 1–4 July 2012
What is the Future of Industrial Design?
Anna VALTONEN
Umeå University
Abstract
This paper will present a picture of what industrial design might be in the future, as well as
tested examples of what this could mean in practice. It uses empirical material from
workshops by 32 faculty members in the area of design and personal written reflections of
102 members of design faculty and students.
The paper will show three types of change that we might expect in the future: changes in
our artistic basis, changes in what types of new skills are needed, and new intellectual ways
of approaching design.
Keywords: industrial design, design and society, prototyping, future of design