This paper presents an empirical case study on a pedagogical and co-creative paradigm shift designed to revitalize indigenous craft traditions within a university design program. The project addresses the challenge of transmitting tacit cultural knowledge in a formal educational setting, where conventional design pedagogies often fail to engage indigenous students. The study documents a collaboration between indigenous design students from National United University and the Seediq community in Taiwan. The intervention centered on the co-creation of a “cross-woven” bamboo chair, a novel artifact that integrates the students’ bamboo-weaving skills with the community’s traditional textile weaving techniques. This process inverted the typical design thinking model by prioritizing hands-on practice (“labor before ideation”), fostering a reciprocal learning environment where students and community artisans acted as both teachers and learners. The findings demonstrate that this co-creative model not only facilitates the revival of endangered craft skills but also empowers indigenous youth to act as cultural innovators, re-contextualizing traditional materials and techniques to create artifacts with contemporary relevance and cultural value. The project serves as a replicable framework for value-based design education that aligns technological innovation with cultural heritage and community empowerment.

This paper introduces a design-oriented method for building a project “Sustainability Profile” that makes a product’s contribution to sustainable development visible and discussable through a UN SDG–inspired 5P lens: People, Planet, Prosperity, Peace, and Partnership. Using a grounded, bottom-up approach, we coded 30 Master of Design project abstracts to extract design concerns, motivations, values, and intended impacts, then mapped these codes to the 5Ps.

Cross-project consolidation and clustering yielded a reusable set of 5P indicators assembled into a sustainability rating matrix. Projects are assessed with a binary rule (indicator present/absent) and normalised within each pillar to account for differing indicator counts, then visualised as radar charts. A pilot on five projects shows how profiles reveal “spikes” and “slumps,” enabling reflection and earlier integration of sustainability beyond environmental optimisation, including Peace and Partnership and a broadened view of Prosperity. Results show skew toward People and Prosperity; Planet is often neglected overall.

In this paper, we address the use of Virtual Reality (VR) as a tool in the service design process. We present a framework for using VR in the service design process, in which the VR-based and physical interaction phases are conducted sequentially to leverage the strengths of each method. VR is applied in contextualization, visualizing the potential, affirmation, and futurization phases, integrated into the arc of the service design process. The presented VRSD framework is evaluated in a service design case study that addresses the design of a recycling center, where VR was applied throughout the service design process. VR can be a powerful tool at all stages of service design, including ideating, iterating, and presenting, especially for saving time and enabling fast switching between designs. However, face-to-face meetings also remain important and play a key role in facilitating discussions and supporting the dynamics among designers

This study develops a data-driven Proof of Performance to quantify productivity gains enabled by Remote Operations Support in complex mechatronic systems during operation. Remote Operations Support provides centralised, data-based monitoring and remote troubleshooting of machines, allowing error cases to be addressed without immediate on-site presence and thereby reducing downtime. The Proof of Performance operationalises productivity as additional running-state time between remote error resolution and the next error or the end of the shift, complemented by resolution-time segmentation to explain performance effects. Iterative refinement of report structure and KPI logic results in a robust measurement framework that supports consistent, comparable reporting. The developed Proof of Performance provides confirmation that Remote Operations Support can substantially enhance productivity improvement by accelerating recovery from disturbances and increasing productive machine time.