Lara Penin
Parsons The New School for Design, New York, USA
Beatrice Villari
Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy
Stefan Holmlid
Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden
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Published in: ServDes.2014 Service Future; Proceedings of the fourth Service Design and Service Innovation Conference; Lancaster University; United Kingdom; 9-11 April 2014
Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings 99:60, p. 484-484
Published: 2014-06-25
ISBN: 978-91-7519-280-2
ISSN: 1650-3686 (print), 1650-3740 (online)
Today’s designers are increasingly being asked to design services and systems intended as new
challenges for societal change; for new ways of production and consumption; and for new
governments and the private sector. In response; our current educational missions also need to
change. Current design approaches; inspired by user experience and user-centered design; are
necessary but insufficient in adequately training students in how to take on these new design
challenges. An open question is how we best design the curricula of the future to best
accommodate for designing future product service systems and services and systems intended for
contemporary society.
This session invites a core group of design educators to compare and contrast their educational
approaches to managing the increasing breadth and complexity of service design. We hope to
bring together leaders in academic service design to discuss their thoughts and experience in
creating new service design curricula; or instead tuning more traditional curricula in industrial and
communication design. We hope to promote an international discussion about service design
pedagogy and how it has led to the development of service design practice and careers.
