Integrating Sustainability and Digital Transformation into Applied Arts Student Projects

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

Department of Interior Design and Furniture, Faculty of Applied Arts, Damietta University, Egypt

Abstract

With the development of the global environmental awareness of the importance of natural resources and raw materials, there has been an increased interest in directing product designs to become eco-friendly. Thus, resource sustainability has become one of the most basic philosophical concepts in product design. Also, technology emerged with the trend towards digital transformation it contributed towards an intellectual change in design. In this study, we explore considerations for integrating sustainable design baisics and digital transformation into student projects of Applied Arts. This study targets the category of art students and their projects to extract a proposed framework for integrating the global sustainability trend and digital transformation in their students’ projects. The study identifis the students' most important problems related to the resources in their projects with surveys of their views in developing the students’ projects. By studying the methods of implementing sustainability in projects and digital technology and idintifing the most important challenges they face. As such online questionnaires were conducted on the environmental, social and economic impact of the sustainability application on students’ projects and the other questionnaire was about analzing digital transformation in student projects. Based on the results of these surveys, a proposed framework was developed to integrate sustainability and digital transformation into student projects. Also, proposals product designs wee designed by the researcher and presented as models for integrating sustainability into student projects.       

Keywords

Files

Share

How to cite

Statistics