research activities are centred on sustainable product design, specifically, the socialcultural aspects of sustainable design. She is currently researching the psychology of product attachment and how product life spans can be increased. She has published papers in design education since 1998. This paper reports on an initial study that begins the process of considering how design education should deal with the issue of sustainable design specifically in the context of the education of graduate designers in the fields of product, design engineering and interior design. Consideration is given to the development of the design curriculum and the design process. Further, a number of questions related to shaping the future of design and engineering education are also explored. The question this research seeks to address is whether sustainability, or more specifically sustainable design, should or can be an integral part of engineering/product design programmes or whether it should/or can be developed as a separate design discipline, perhaps as a postgraduate extension to the designer's core skills set? The research also discusses the difference between, ecodesign and sustainable design and the implications of the understanding of this difference for design education.
Humphries-Smith discussed sustainable design and the design curriculum at Bournemouth University REF .
Sustainable design and the design curriculum
J. of Design Research
Engineering