This study conducted a project class providing design consulting to village corporations, with the intention of examining the efficiency of project classes and achieving the symbiotic effect of education and industry. The study had the objective of pr...
This study conducted a project class providing design consulting to village corporations, with the intention of examining the efficiency of project classes and achieving the symbiotic effect of education and industry. The study had the objective of providing the opportunity for students growing into society to discover for themselves the design problems faced by corporations as well as the process of directly resolving these problems. Doing so helped them ascertain the result of substantially contributing to corporations through design consulting.
The design consulting project class was conducted for 7 weeks during Semester 2 for 4th year industrial design students. The participating corporations included small-scale village corporations in Dobong-gu as selected in February 2011. These corporations were ones that had been recognized as good cases that create employment, but require strategic means to increase their market competitiveness. The goal, therefore, was for students to establish a design consulting concept and plan a process to overcome the problems faced by the corporations. The design strategy consulting process involved conceptualizing through research, analysis and negotiations, and proposing design cases. This was planned to provide a means of resolution that could be identified by the regional residents participating in the operation of the corporations and to withstand as the capability of the corporations. As the method of case development and combined evaluation, the capacity of the village corporations were diagnosed and immediate issues were discovered, issues were deduced in order to establish the design direction, and the detailed executive strategy for brand image development was set in order to specify the design concept.
The effect obtained through cases of the design consulting project class in terms of education was that the integrated design strategy could be researched through a systematic design process based on the current industry. In terms of the corporations, an opportunity was created to devise strategies and to explore the urgent issues faced by corporations.