Features twenty-one contributions that draw on a variety of methodological positions, research backgrounds and design disciplines, including architecture, product design, engineering, applied linguistics, communication studies, cognitive psychology, and discourse studies. This book contains an overview of design thinking research.
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.
Acknowledgements, 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 Representations in 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 Course and
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
Janet McDonnell is Professor of Design Studies at Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design, University of the Arts, London, UK., Peter Lloyd is Senior Lecturer and Head of the Design Group at The Open University, UK.
