Academic Catalog

ID717 PRODUCT-SERVICE SYSTEMS FOR SUSTAINABLE SOLUTIONS

Course Code: 1250717
METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): 3(2-2)
ECTS Credit: 8.0
Department: Industrial Design
Language of Instruction: English
Level of Study: Graduate
Course Coordinator: Lecturer AYÞE ÝDÝL GAZÝULUSOY
Offered Semester: Fall or Spring Semesters.

Course Content

Interdisciplinary team work to develop product-service systems as sustainable solutions for present and future needs. The relationship between industry/industrial design practice and sustainability/sustainable development; prevention/mitigation of environmental problems in industrial design profession; dematerialization of production and consumption; shift in design thinking from ´products´to ´solutions´; product-service systems; providing sustainable solutions through product-service systems; concept generation, scenario building and strategy development for sustainable product-service systems.