重新定义“设计博士’’的边缘:土耳其工业设计博士教育发展特点的评述

Redefining‘PhD in Design' in The Periphery:A Critical review of The development Characteristics of The Doctoral Education in Industrial Design in Turkey

近年来,世界各地的设计类院校纷纷开设了工业设计博士学位。这一博士学位的设置原因多样,情形也各自不同。在这些开设了设计博士学位的学校中,有一些学校来自于一些边缘国家。由于这些国家的工业设计历史很短,工业设计研究生教育包括博士教育的过快发展导致这些专业培养的问题逐渐显现,并使得其处于边缘语境的问题更加凸显出来。本文着重探讨的是土耳其工业设计博士教育的特征,并由点及面,讨论博士学位专业的普遍标准问题以及当地的发展动态促使这些专业建立的原因。本文认为,尽管土耳其工业设计教育的开端较早,但目前仍迫切需要重新定义工业设计博士教育。摘要:

In recent years, design schools in different countries have started PhD programs in industrial design These programs have been established due to different reasons and under completely different circumstances. Among those institutions there are also design schools from peripheral countries. Given the short history of industrial design in those countries, a rapid development of postgraduate design education to include PhD in industrial design raises questions about the characteristics of those programs and factors that led to their emergence in a peripheral context. This paper discusses the development characteristics of the PhD education in industrial design in Turkey as a case with references to both, the universal standards of PhD programs and local dynamics that led to the emergence of those programs. It is argued that despite an early beginning in Turkey, there is a need for the redefinition of the PhD education in industrial design.