Akademie voor Industriële Vormgeving Eindhoven
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SISEA 1990
The Academy for Industrial Design (AIVE), later Design Academy, started in 1950 as an evening course to supply designers to industry. It followed the educational model of the Pratt Institute for the day school that started in 1955. This provided a general basic course followed by a specialization in product design, product presentation or textile design. In the sixties, systematic and programmatic design came to the fore. Jan Lucassen, director from 1983 to 1999, in consultation with colleagues, drew up a new curriculum, based on the user and the semantic aspects of the product. This resulted in a division into specializations in 1984: people and labor, people and environment, people and food, people and leisure, people and transport, people and information. The design side of the profession was central.
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