Designerly Ways of Knowing

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Springer Science & Business Media, Oct 5, 2007 - Architecture - 141 pages

How do designers think?

The concept that designers have and use ‘designerly’ ways of knowing and thinking emerged in the late 1970s alongside new approaches in design education, and was first clearly articulated by Professor Nigel Cross, one of the most internationally respected design researchers.

"Designerly Ways of Knowing" is a revised and edited collection of key lectures and publications by Professor Nigel Cross on the nature of design activity and expertise, and the evidence for design cognition as a particular and essential aspect of human intelligence. It explores the following topics:

    • the nature and nurture of design ability

    • creative cognition in design

    • the natural intelligence of design

    • design discipline versus design science

    • expertise in design.

As a timeline of scholarship and research, and a resource for understanding how designers think and work, this book will interest researchers, teachers and students of industrial and product design, design practitioners and managers.

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Contents

Foreword BIRD
10
Design Products
26
Design as a Form of Intelligence
41
Can a Machine Design?
58
Combination
73
Emergence
76
Gordon Murray
92
Generation of Alternatives
106
Scientific Design
121

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About the author (2007)

Nigel Cross is Professor of Design Studies at the UK’s Open University and a leading international figure in the world of design research. With academic and practical backgrounds in architecture and industrial design, he has conducted research in computer-aided design, design methodology and design education since the nineteen-sixties. His current principal research interest is in design cognition, based on studies of expert and exceptional designers. He has been a member of the academic staff of the pioneering, multi-media Open University since 1970, where he has been responsible for, or instrumental in, a wide range of distance education courses in design and technology. For many years Professor Cross was Head of the Department of Design and Innovation at the Open University – a department with one of the strongest research records in Art and Design in the UK. Recent books by Professor Cross include the third edition of his successful textbook on Engineering Design Methods (Wiley, 2000), and he has been a co-editor of books on Research in Design Thinking, Analysing Design Activity and Expertise in Design. His total publications list includes more than 120 items, plus many Open University course texts, broadcasts, etc. Professor Cross is also Editor-in-Chief of the international journal of Design Studies.

Bibliographic information

TitleDesignerly Ways of Knowing
Board of International Research in Design
AuthorNigel Cross
Editionillustrated
PublisherSpringer Science & Business Media, 2007
ISBN3764384840, 9783764384845
Length141 pages
Subjects ›  › 

Architecture / Design, Drafting, Drawing & Presentation
Architecture / Interior Design / General
Art / Techniques / General
  
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