Design the Future Activities (DFA): Typology of Content for Case Studies

This work-in-progress, research-to-practice provides a typology for content for case studies that are developed as part of the Design the Future Activities (DF A) framework. This work is based on the understanding that the nature of engineering design education and practice is changing due to the emergence of intelligent, autonomous objects. Traditional ways of teaching design, which are based on teaching design as a process of creatively solving problems, are not sufficient. Complementary to previous teaching practices is the need to provide design content to address the need for designing for the future, where intelligent objects act as a stakeholder in the design problem. In this paper, a typology of content is proposed to develop case studies that address the need for developing and delivering the DFA framework; that is engineering design education with the core of the technology of artificial intelligence.