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The contribution of the new technologies to the 21st - Century Design

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The contribution of the new technologies to the 21st - Century Design
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Article in International Conference Proceedings Book
Year
2002
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M. Teresa Vasconcelos
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3rd International Conference on Design History & Design Studies
Istambul, Turquia, 9 a 12 de julho de 2002
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FOS: Engineering and technology > Other engineering and technologies
CORDIS: Technological sciences > Engineering
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Abstract (EN): In the past the market economy was dominated by the local and regional design, characterized for strong links to the customs, traditions and natural resources from each region. As the consequence of the technological advances and the growing needs of consumption, at present, products are manufactured based on economical, functional and marketing criterions, which means that their design is very offset from the regional and local signs. Between the challenges that characterize the actual economy, one highlights the existence of more market niches, product variations and shorter life cycles. To survive in this economy, marked by the competition and the globalisation, one search to imply in product developing process, the design, engineering, marketing and production department, that composes a known industrial methodology called concurrent or simultaneous engineering. In this article, one intends to exhibit the applications and advantages of the new technologies, like Rapid Prototyping (RP), that are valuable tools of the concurrent engineering and to analyse the specific implications in the design history and teaching. RP is a family of modern technologies that generate three-dimensional solid objects under computer control. Besides its designation be reported to the first major application that is industrial prototyping, the RP equipments also allow the rapid tooling and the direct manufacture of small series or single products. Nowadays, the commercialisation of RP equipments, termed concept modellers or 3Dprinters is in great expansion. Although these machines use a very reduced class of cheap materials with poor mechanical characteristics, they allow the designers to verify and quickly test the ideas that they are developing during the creative process. The designer can realize in plenitude the iterative process of creation without the traditional economical and materials limitations, being enough to send the CAD file directly to the RP equipment placed in a office, like an usual inkjet printer. So it is possible to test new ideas with better accuracy before its concretisation, avoiding misunderstandings and delays and inciting the positive criticism through the involvement of the technical staff from all the related departments. Particularity, faced to the challenges due to the globalisation, the traditional and regional industries will find in these technologies the means that they need to ensure its own future surviving. This presentation is divided in the following sections: - Innovation loop in the past and in the present. The iterative process. - New technologies available to the design and the designers: Rapid Prototyping and Internet. - Design Pedagogy: new challenges in the formation of future generations of designers. - Conclusions and future trends.
Language: English
Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific
No. of pages: 11
License type: Click to view license CC BY-NC
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