Design synthesis and shape generation

McKay, Alison and Chase, Scott and Garner, Steven and Jowers, Iestyn and Prats, Miquel and Hogg, David and Chau, Hau Hing and de Pennington, Alan and Earl, Christopher and Lim, Sungwoo AHRC (Funder), EPSRC (Funder) (2009) Design synthesis and shape generation. In: Designing for the 21st Century: Interdisciplinary Methods and Findings. Gower Publishing, UK. ISBN 9781409402404

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Abstract

If we are to capitalise on the potential that a design approach might bring to innovation in business and society, we need to build a better understanding of the evolving skill-sets that designers will need and the contexts within which design might operate. This demands more discourse between those involved in cutting edge practice, the researchers who help to uncover principles, codify knowledge and create theories and the educators who are nurturing future design talent. This book promotes such a discourse by reporting on the work of twenty research teams who explored different facets of future design activity as part of Phase 2 of the UK's research council supported Designing for the 21st Century Research Initiative. Each of these contributions describes the origins of the project, the research team and their project aims, the research methods used and the new knowledge and understanding generated. Editor and Initiative Director, Professor Tom Inns, provides an introductory chapter that suggests ways the reader might navigate these viewpoints. This chapter concludes with an overview of the key lessons that might be learnt from this collection of design research activity.

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McKay, Alison, Chase, Scott ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8823-5071, Garner, Steven, Jowers, Iestyn, Prats, Miquel, Hogg, David, Chau, Hau Hing, de Pennington, Alan, Earl, Christopher and Lim, Sungwoo; Inns, Tom
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