The twenty-one contributions to About: Designing draw on a rich variety of methodological positions, research backgrounds and design disciplines including architecture, product design, engineering, applied linguistics, communication studies, cognitive psychology, and discourse studies. Collectively these studies comprise a state-of-the-art overview of design thinking research. About: Designing will be of interest to design researchers at any level, as well as specialists in a broad range of design disciplines and social studies.
Author(s): Janet McDonnell, Peter Lloyd, Fraser Reid, Rachael Luck, Nigel Cross
Publisher: CRC Press
Year: 2009
Language: English
Pages: 433
City: Boca Raton
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Acknowledgement
1 Introduction
Part 1: Understanding Design Processes
2: Intersections of Brainstorming Rules and Social Order
3: Spider Webbing: A Paradigm for Engineering Design Conversations During Concept Generation
4: Co-Evolution in Design Practice
Part 2: Values in Designing
5: Ethical Imagination and Design
6: The Mechanisms of Value Transfer in Design Meetings
7: Affect-in-Cognition Through the Language of Appraisals
Part 3: Aspects of Design Cognition
8: Analogical Reasoning and Mental Simulation in Design:Two Strategies Linked to Uncertainty Resolution
9: Task, Team, Process: The Development of Shared Representationsin an Engineering Design Team
10: Variants and Invariants of Design Cognition
Part 4: Design Process Models
11: The Influence of the Design Task Description on the Courseand Outcome of Idea Generation Meetings
12: Using the FBS Ontology to Capture Semantic Design Information in Design Protocol Studies
Part 5: Language, Discourse and Gesture
13: 'Does this compromise your design?' Socially Producing a Design Concept in Talk-in-lnteraction
14: Collaborative Negotiation in Design: A Study of Design Conversations between Architect and Building Users
15: The Function of Gesture in an Architectural Design Meeting
16: Aspects of Language Use in Design Conversation
Part 6: Constructing Roles
17: Performing Architecture: Talking 'Architect' and 'Client' into Being
18: Behind the Scenes of the Design Theatre: Actors, Roles and the Dynamics of Communication
19: Exploring the Boundaries: Language, Roles and Structures in Cross-Disciplinary Design Teams
Part 7: Objects, References, Context
20: From Ronchamp by Sledge: On the Pragmatics of Object References
21: Keeping Traces of Design Meetings through Intermediary Objects
22: Matters of Context in Design
List of Contributors
Author Index
