Abstract
The teaching of industrial design and product design is usually conducted in an industrial design studio, a place that
has developed traditions of learning-by-doing within the traditions of project-based and problem-based education. However, the design studio has been, and still is, an anachronism within the university context, perceived by some as craft-like and imprecise, lacking rigour, when compared to the intellectual arts and objective credibility and when set against the methods used by the natural sciences. The paper describes the historical background of the architectural studio and how the studio evolved to better facilitate industrial design thinking and learning. It will discuss the educational advantages of the studio together with certain shortcomings and suggest ways that it could be enhanced in order to enable it to be more effective for the teaching of both product designers and design engineers.
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