Industrial design is dead. Long live industrial design : adapting industrial design curricula in response to a climate-changed future and the current university climate

Industrial Design (ID) has had enormous agency in how we now live - by determining the nature of our products; by steering everyday behaviours; by helping construct social norms; and by generating visions of what is desirable. What sets ID apart as a profession are its skill sets – its investigative process, its making, and its communications. Bound to these skills are critical and foresightful ways of thinking. Up until now, these skills have been deployed to support product consumption and a growth economy, rather than taking a lead in driving change towards more sustainable ways of living. This paper discusses two significant drivers for ID curriculum renewal. One is inherent to the place and climate of ID in the university, the other is an inherited global concern: climate change