The Design School in the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts at Arizona State University invites applications for a full-time non-tenure-track appointment as the Director of Design Integration and Professor of Practice in the Industrial Design Program. This position is full time, non-tenure track faculty position that is supported by a partnership of The Design School, The W.P. Carey School of Business and the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering. This is a one-year renewable appointment. Preferred start date is as soon as possible and negotiable with the successful candidate.
The Director of Design Integration is an innovative new role for the country’s most Innovative University. The Design School, W.P. Carey School of Business and Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering seek candidates to integrate the power of design thinking and processes across the three schools and all of ASU. Currently the three schools partner on Innovation Space (see information on Innovation Space below) along with other Schools, and are seeking to expand this partnership and the teaching of interdisciplinary design processes across the three schools and across all of ASU.
The Director of Design Integration will lead the intellectual development, growth and future of InnovationSpace. At the same time, the Director will pioneer new strategies for integrating the program’s model of transdisciplinary education and design thinking into curricula across the university. This position will be ASU’s leader in design thinking and process integration, working with multiple schools across the university and connecting ASU to the broader corporate, non-profit and government worlds that are interested in design. The candidate will work to develop online, in-person, and hybrid strategies to teach design thinking and process across ASU, connecting the work to real world issues through funded projects. The candidate will also advise on and participate in the Industrial Design program’s curriculum redesign process, and work to empower the Industrial design faculty to partner on teaching, research and creative activities across ASU. ASU has an intense desire to expand the concept of InnovationSpace to make the transdisciplinary experience, design thinking and comprehensive innovation strategy more accessible to a larger number of students and disciplines. This work might include incorporating the work of ASU’s Biomimicry Center and other social impact design innovation efforts into future shape of InnovationSpace’s research and teaching. We want candidates who will help us dream big about the future of the excellent existing asset. The candidate will also consider creating offerings on design thinking and innovation strategy for executive education.
About InnovationSpace http://innovationspace.asu.edu
Innovation Space is a transdisciplinary education/research lab teaching students how to develop new products and services that create market value, serving real individual and societal needs, improving society & minimizing environmental impact. In the last 12 years, InnovationSpace has partnered with and been funded by corporate partners including Adidas, Johnson & Johnson, Honeywell, LG Electronics, Herman Miller, P&G, Dow Corning and Disney Consumer Products to develop new product and services concepts with our transdisciplinary student teams. Innovation thrives in transdisciplinary teams and is currently a joint venture between The Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts, the W.P. Carey School of Business, the Ira Fulton School of Engineering and the School of Sustainability. In addition, we partner with The Biomimicry Center, a joint effort between ASU and Biomimicry 3.8 that facilitates biomimicry education and research activities. Over the course of their senior year, undergraduate student teams work to develop a comprehensive innovation strategy for their new product/service concepts.
InnovationSpace is based on our Integrated Innovation Model, a holistic framework for innovation developed by our founder, Paul Rothstein. It stresses the importance of addressing the needs of all stakeholders by asking four key questions that every company should consider in its design thinking while creating new products and services:
What is valuable to the user? (from a consumer perspective)
What is desirable to the company? (from a market perspective)
What is possible through engineering? (from a technology perspective)
What is good for society and the environment? (from a human perspective)
Using this model, students create products and services that satisfy user needs and desires; create measurable value for business; apply innovative but proven engineering standards and benefit society while minimizing impacts on the environment. Over the course of their senior year, the student teams work to develop a comprehensive innovation strategy for their new product/service concepts, guided by our transdisciplinary faculty and our sponsors.
Job Expectations
The appointee will be expected to:
Manage, teach in and reinvent InnovationSpace to scale it up to allow for more students and corporate, non-profit and government partners to benefit from the program. This work includes creating numerous sections of Fulton/Carey/Herberger next generation InnovationSpace classes that meets capstone requirements and impact a few hundred students.
Work closely with leadership and faculty currently involved in InnovationSpace to shape the future of the program.
Create offering on design thinking and innovation strategy for executive education.
In addition to teaching in Innovation space, teaching courses for business and engineering students, and/or develop classes that might be taught by other Industrial Design faculty.
Overseeing the integration of design thinking, problem-solving, innovation strategy, and other related curricula integration throughout the business school and engineering schools at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.
Work with other Schools as appropriate.
Assist with creating design thinking workshops as needed.
Building partnerships with corporations, non-profits and governments to create applied teaching projects and other innovative activities.
Fundraising for InnovationSpace and other initiatives as appropriate.
Develop electives that can be shared across the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts/ W.P.Carey School of Business/and Ira Fulton School of Engineering, and other schools as appropriate.
- Assist in the development of a certificate in Design Thinking/Design Prototyping that could be offered to business/engineering students.