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The Practice Of Design Innovation In The Academic Context: The Project Portfolio By Brunel Design, Giulia Cosco, Vanja Garaj
The Practice Of Design Innovation In The Academic Context: The Project Portfolio By Brunel Design, Giulia Cosco, Vanja Garaj
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Collaborations between academia and industry can be an effective way to build capabilities and generate value in design innovation. Department of Design (Brunel Design) at Brunel University London provides different design innovation support programmes to businesses by involving its students and academic and professional staff. This paper presents a literature review on design innovation and its benefits in collaborations between academia and industry. The final goal is to describe the practice of design innovation by Brunel Design through its programmes and the advantages obtained by the stakeholders involved. Each programme description is supported by a case study and the programme …
A Pilot Study Used To Better Construct A Research Direction To Understand Where Industrial Design Fits Within The 4th Industrial Revolution (Industry 4.0), Christoph Heinrich Walter Koch, Blair Kuys, Gianni Renda
A Pilot Study Used To Better Construct A Research Direction To Understand Where Industrial Design Fits Within The 4th Industrial Revolution (Industry 4.0), Christoph Heinrich Walter Koch, Blair Kuys, Gianni Renda
DRS Biennial Conference Series
The industrial design profession is engaging with a new manufacturing revolution — Industry4.0 (I4.0). This new paradigm presents new opportunities and challenges for industrial designers. However, it is still unclear what knowledge industrial designers can contribute to manufacturers in an emerging I4.0 context. This pilot study serves to determine the current state of practice of industrial design, and to discover areas of improvement as well as strengths to build on. Most importantly, this study functions as the first step to better qualify questions for a subsequent online questionnaire survey, in conjunction with findings from literature. A focus group was conducted …
Philosophy At Work: Postphenomenology As A Generative Lens In Design Research And Practice, Sander Van Der Zwan, Maarten Smith, Jelle Bruineberg, Pierre Lévy, Caroline Hummels
Philosophy At Work: Postphenomenology As A Generative Lens In Design Research And Practice, Sander Van Der Zwan, Maarten Smith, Jelle Bruineberg, Pierre Lévy, Caroline Hummels
DRS Biennial Conference Series
We investigate the use of five postphenomenological concepts by bringing them to design practice and using them as a "generative lens" in design research. The use of these concepts in design research creates tension between the general and the particular. In a constructive design research process, we resolve this tension. We follow two complementary lines of inquiry: first, we design a ritual to support a postphenomenological analysis of the workplace. We discuss insights regarding ordering and formulation of the concepts, selecting a technological intermediary and assessing technologies. In the second, we use postphenomenology as a generative lens in designing the …