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Considering the 30-year history of industrial design education in Iran and after 18 years of the last curriculum in this field, there is a need for a new curriculum design for this field. This research aims to explain the factors affecting the design of industrial design curriculum in the undergraduate degree in Iran with a qualitative and phenomenological approach and content analysis method. The populations studied were faculty members in the field of industrial design (at least in professor assistant grade) at Tehran universities. By theoretical sampling method up to reaching data saturation, 16 persons were considered. Data collection was made by deep unstructured interview. Expressions and statements of interviewees were determined as the unit of content, accordingly, 604 significant codes were found that finally by code reduction, 10 main themes in two categories were apparent: 1. Curriculum 2. Reform. There were six curriculum themes, effective components in curriculum, content, teaching-learning, educational environment, evaluation and four themes emerged in the category of reform, updating, reviewing and changing, crediting and establishing new fields. Consequently, in order to design an industrial design curriculum, the necessity of redefining the industrial design discipline in Iran and determining the objectives of the curriculum based on the needs assessment, professional development of curriculum, and the use of the 30-year experience in this field, strategies for transferring knowledge and achievement an indigenous model of industrial design, selection of learning strategies in the field and group learning in the teaching-learning process, diverse educational spaces, ongoing evaluation and curriculum reform, review and updating of curriculum, accreditation to industrial design, and development of new fields of study in undergraduate degree were introduced as suggestions for redesigning the curriculum of the discipline.
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