Abstract:

Sustainability can be described as an inclusive concept which is developed and proposed as an answer for social and environmental problems. Under this broad sustainability concept, industrial design basically takes part with a design approach generally known as “sustainable design”. Today, while transforming into a sustainable culture gains vital importance, field of industrial design should not only be evolved in terms of professional practice, but also should be improved and transformed in means of education to include sustainable design criteria. One of the main aspects of this required transformation is the transformation in teaching and learning methods. Problem Based Learning approach is being used in many undergraduate programs of many different fields and is proposed by many researchers to integrate sustainability criteria into curriculum. This paper covers using of Problem Based Learning principles within the scope of sustainable design in an industrial design project/studio course. Results are drawn from a PhD research at Istanbul Technical University aiming to propose a method to integrate sustainability criteria into industrial design curriculum in Turkey. Proposal has been put into practice in a studio/project course and the success of proposal was measured by analyzing student projects. Keywords: Industrial Design, Sustainability, Sustainable Design, Design Education, Studio Course, Problem Based Learning (PBL).

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