Products Validation in the Design Project and Scopes in an Online Educational Environment

Abstract

This article gathers the results of a research on the project’s pedagogy, which, starting from the analysis of the contemporary theories about it, presents their common horizons to contrast them with results got in previous research. Therefore, through a critical approach it was proposed to explain terms used to refer to the design project and validate modifications to a project method proposed in the education of designers. That was necessary to adapt it to the online workshops produced by COVID-19 confinement in 2020. Those modifications focused on its most critical activity, in-process product validation, which is essential to evaluate products’ environmental and social sustainability and the training in responsible design practice.