Appraisal Discipline in the context of Industrial Design

The article, reconstructing the framework of the most recent developments in the Architect’s education and profession, and more generally, in the transformation of the Architect’ skills, explores what’s happening in the Industrial Design sector, trying to catch, from the experience acquired to date in the courses of “Economic Evaluation of the Products” at the Department of Architecture and Industrial Design – University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”- a series of element of convergence between the Appraisal and Evaluation disciplines and the Industrial Design. Starting from a premise, which further motivates the reasons of the following reflections , the article, after having figured out findings and prospective in the Architecture Sector, is opened to the reflection on the ongoing dynamics in the Industrial Design Sector, both on the side of the university education and on that of the market. Without being exhaustive, but rather to stimulate further elements of reflection and debate, the article try to focus some of the reasons which make the appraisal and evaluation teaching in the Industrial Design degree courses, an opportunity not to be missed. Concludes the article a reference to the Third Mission which, in the interaction between university and territories, see the disciplines of Appraisal and Evaluation called upon to give an essential contribution.