Abstract

MONTAGNA, Gianni; CARVALHO, Cristina; CARVALHO, Hélder  and  CATARINO, André. The Product Designer as a Connecting Element in Multidisciplinary Teams. Rev. Lusófona de Educação [online]. 2012, n.20, pp.99-108. ISSN 1645-7250.

The possibility of keeping the most important design elements created by the designer will be achieved through a mix of strategy and knowledge that the designer should be able to manage in the most profitable way. The individual and reserved behavior of the designer, generally assumed before the others players in the process of developing new products, is no longer sufficient to meet the needs of the increasingly competitive industry and market. The ideas and concepts that can be transmitted to the designer by a working group that allow acquisition of multiple views on the same object in terms of concept, use, production and market, would be impossible to be provided by a single individual because of a subjective observation and experiences limitations. The methodology of multidisciplinary research is undoubtedly the most important path to follow and should be introduced in the teaching curricula of design schools from the very beginning, especially since the Bologna Agreement has drastically reduced the contact time between students and teachers.

Keywords : conceptual design; multidisciplinary research; design and technologies; design teaching; design ethodology.

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