Topics

Design and Society. Design with regards to health, inclusion, gender perspective, and attention to functional diversity, and design for the elderly.

Design and the User. Emotional design, design of experiences, design for interaction, NeuroDesign.

New Technologies and their Application to Industrial Design. Digital production for the consumer industry, tools for rapid prototyping, Industrial 4.0, interactive 3D modelling, Virtual Reality, Reverse Engineering.

Aesthetics and the History of Industrial Design. Exhibitions, historical research, publications, files and documentation centres, cultural diversity.

Design and the Environment. Ecodesign, sustainable design, design for development, circular economy.

Training in Industrial Design Engineering. New training-learning approaches and methods, project-based learning, feasibility studies or studies on modelling the professional for the labour market, University-Company collaborations.

Innovation in Design. Methods, tools, and creativity and innovation processes, Collaborative Engineering, management in design, research in design, strategic design, design for the future.