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Urban And Regional Design: A Practical Science, I. T. Klaasen

DRS Biennial Conference Series

Widely held notions such as the uniqueness of each design and design situation and of learning the design craft in a studio with ‘apprentice’ and ‘master’ relationships, have hitherto left little room for thinking about urban design as a science. In this paper it is argued that urban and regional design is basically a practical science like medicine, applied psychology and other technical sciences. In a practical science the objective of research is the application of science : research is focused on ‘what is possible’, be it desirable or not (yet) desirable. Practical sciences differ inter alia from empirical ones …

Distributed Design Teams: Embedded One-On-One Conversations In One-To-Many, A. Larsson, P. Törlind, A. Mabogunje, A. Milne

DRS Biennial Conference Series

Engineering design is fundamentally social, requiring a lot of interaction and communication between the people involved. Additionally, good design often relies upon the ability of a crossfunctional team to create a shared understanding of the task, the process and the respective roles of its members. The negotiation and bargaining for common ground are essential in the design process. It is important to provide tools and methods so that also geographically distributed design teams are given the opportunity to engage in such social interactions. This paper presents a study of interpersonal communication within the Distributed Team Innovation (DTI) framework; a joint …

Folding, Blending And Implicate Order: Reconceptualisation In Design Education, A. Howe, P. Dillon

DRS Biennial Conference Series

In this paper we consider some of the rich body of work of the mathematician, quantum physicist and thinker David Bohm. Bohm’s ideas have both direct and tangential relevance to design. We review Bohm’s notions of implicate and explicate order as metaphors for the totality of design and the relationship of its parts. There are parallels with initial inception and then realisation through the subsequent stages of design. If one starts with Bohm’s position that the universe has an implicate order, then design is one way of unfolding that order to make it explicate. Design ideas are enfolded around us …

Building On Virtual Common Ground: Design Participation For The Network Age, S. Little, A. Ando

DRS Biennial Conference Series

This paper describes a set of action research initiatives intended to disseminate the technical skills necessary to participation in an increasingly globalised design discourse. It starts by examining the shifting relationship between design, production and consumption triggered by globalisation. An account of partnerships between a network of “experts” and a range of “users” follows. This is premised on the use of available infrastructure and the sharing of modest technical skills. This has allowed partners in peripheral locations to embark on the more rewarding process of social learning and exploration of available ICTs without first having to climb a steep technical …

Building Better Relationships Between Design Research, Design Research Education, Government, Industry And The Design Professions, T. Love

DRS Biennial Conference Series

Governments and major industrial players regard successful innovation as one of the most significant factors in improving economic and social outcomes. Designing is the process by which new knowledge is transformed into innovative products, systems and services. Research into designing provides the foundation for improving designing and improving how innovation processes are managed. Stakeholders in design activities have relatively neglected design research. This paper focuses on the role of concepts and terminology in multidisciplinary design fields in supporting or inhibiting relationships between design professionals, designs researchers, design research educators, government and industry organisations.

The Aesthetic Of Precision In Virtual Design What Are The Implications Of Precision In The Use Of Computers In The Modelling Of Architecture And Interior Design?, T. Loveday

DRS Biennial Conference Series

It is suspected in design education, that the use of computer representations of design, especially 3D modelling, tends to limit design outcomes in some ways while at the same time appearing to offer greater opportunities to explore new ideas in others. Virtual space in design becomes a province of isolation, often noted for its limited view of design. Precision itself is a style of argument (rhetoric) for design, conventionally accepted in such pictures as working drawings. The precision of the drawing itself is denied in order to make way for precision in the concept. The return of the æsthetic of …

Putting It All Together: Bringing Interdisciplinary Research To The Practice Of Designing Interactive Learning Tools, B. Sadler Takach, J. Daniels, C. Varnhagen

DRS Biennial Conference Series

Working within an interdisciplinary, collaborative context to bring research into design practice offers both challenges and opportunities in building strategic alliances for a common purpose, integrating methods of research, and transferring or translating the resulting knowledge into action. Integrating multiple methods requires an iterative, complementary approach to the design of research, characterised by the need for effective communicative strategies throughout the process. Two of the responsibilities inherent in applied research are to undertake useful research and to report it in ways that are accessible to people working in different disciplines, and usable in practice. We centre our discussion on three …

Desperately Seeking Common Ground: The Emergence Of Design Management In Greece, A. Yagou, V. Tsironi

DRS Biennial Conference Series

“Common ground,” defined as the “ability to communicate across fields,” provides the background for this paper. Communicating across fields is very significant in the design domain in general and particularly in design management, as both areas are highly interdisciplinary. The paper traces the “common ground” theme in the contemporary practice of design and design management in the Greek context. The state of Greek design is briefly presented and then the issue of design management is discussed through a number of interviews with related professionals. The cultivation of a common ground, by all parties involved, appears to be a crucial factor …

Intuitive Use Of Products, A. Blackler, V. Popovic, D. Mahar

DRS Biennial Conference Series

The term “intuitive use” has been widely used with respect to various products and systems but has not yet been adequately defined. Through an extensive literature review, it was concluded that intuition is a cognitive process that utilises knowledge gained through prior experience. Intuitive use of products involves utilising knowledge gained through other products or experience(s). Therefore, products that people use intuitively should be those with features they have encountered before. A set of experiments with a digital camera was conducted to test the thesis. The results of these experiments support the thesis. It was found that prior knowledge of …

An Indian Who Doesn’T Know How To Grow The Maize, S. Boess, D. Durling, C. Lebbon, C. Maggs

DRS Biennial Conference Series

In user-centred design, a common ground that emerges is an orientation towards research into the needs and wishes of consumers. Hermeneutic phenomenology can be adopted by a designer to investigate her/his own activity and use of knowledge in designing. A reflection of this kind is presented here. It is based on design and research activities in the domain of product design, in which the realization of user-centred design was sought by means of preliminary user research, application of its results in design work, and evaluation of the outcomes through renewed user research. The outcome of the reflection is the formulation …

Theory Construction In Design Research. Criteria, Approaches, And Methods., K. Friedman

DRS Biennial Conference Series

Design involves creating something new or transforming a less desirable situation to a preferred situation. To do this, designers must know how things work and why. Understanding how things work and why requires explanation, and it sometimes requires prediction. To explain and predict, we must construct and test theories. Theories are propositions or sets of propositions that allow us to analyze or explain subjects. Some theories are complex and sophisticated. Others are simple. Theory can be described in many ways. In its most basic form, a theory is a model. It is an illustration describing how something works by showing …

An Innovative Approach To The Aesthetic Design, F. Giannini, M. Monti

DRS Biennial Conference Series

As the aesthetic aspect of a product is becoming more and more important in customers' decisions, there is an increasing need of tools able to express and preserve the styling intent during the product development cycle, while offering an interaction with the user much more adherent to his mentality. The European Project FIORES-II (Character Preservation and Modelling in Aesthetic and Engineering Design) is aimed at creating innovative CAD tools capable to capture and preserve the product aesthetic character and make it accessible in a multi criteria approach for styling and engineering design optimisation. In order to explore the possible relationships …

The Missouri Miner, September 5, 2002

The Missouri Miner Newspaper

No abstract provided.

An Extension Of Elton's L(1)(N) Theorem To Complex Banach Spaces, S J. Dilworth, Joseph P. Patterson

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Spartan Daily, September 4, 2002, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 119, Issue 4

Burns, Cecil Edward Oral History Interview, Andrea L'Hommedieu

Edmund S. Muskie Oral History Collection

Cecil Edward Burns was born May 6, 1918 in Rumford, Maine and grew up in Mexico, Maine. His parents were John R. and Rose (Paradis) Burns. His father, John, was a mill worker and tax collector, and his grandfather was a brick mason and helped build the Oxford paper mill. His brother, John, was a priest in the church that the Muskie family attended in Waterville, Maine.

Uab Wins $800,000 Federal Grant To Help Teachers Assist Disabled, Non-English Speaking Students, Staff

Browse All News

No abstract provided.

September 4, 2002 Faculty Senate Minutes, University Of South Carolina

Faculty Senate

No abstract provided.

Daily Eastern News: September 04, 2002, Eastern Illinois University

September

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Isom Center Prepares Way For International Women’S Support Group, Elaine Pugh

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. - International women on campus is the focus of a Sept. 9 program at the University of Mississippi expected to address their emotional needs and the idea for a campus support group.

Liberal Arts Names First Distinguished Faculty Fellows, Barbara Lago

University of Mississippi News

UNIVERSITY, Miss. - Two professors and a well-known writer are the first recipients of the three-year Liberal Arts Distinguished Faculty Fellowships.

Ke Alaka'i, Vol. 65, No. 57 (2002-09-04), Brigham Young University Hawaii

Ke Alaka'i

No abstract provided.

Montana Kaimin, September 4, 2002, Associated Students Of The University Of Montana

Montana Kaimin, 1898-present

Student newspaper of the University of Montana, Missoula.

New Accounting Culture., Barry C. Melancon

Guides, Handbooks and Manuals

No abstract provided.

September 4, 2002, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

No abstract provided.

Building On Success, Albert Simone

RIT Digital Archives

No abstract provided.

It's Happening At State: September 04, 2002

It's Happening at State

Provides summary information of news and events of interest to the faculty and staff of NDSU.

The Ticker, September 3, 2002

The Ticker

The Ticker is the student newspaper of Baruch College. It has been published continuously since 1932, when the Baruch College campus was the School of Business and Civic Administration of the City College of New York.

Ccu Newsletter, September 3, 2002, Coastal Carolina University

Coastal Carolina University Newsletter

A newsletter for faculty, staff and friends of Coastal Carolina University. Volume 12, Number 14

Ajuri V. Idf Commander In West Bank, Aharon Barak, Shlomo Levin, Theodor Or, Eliahu Mazza, Mishael Cheshin, Tova Strasberg-Cohen, Dalia Dorner, Dorit Beinisch, Jacob Turkel

Translated Opinions

Facts: The IDF Commander in Judaea and Samaria made orders requiring three residents of Judaea and Samaria to live, for the next two years, in the Gaza Strip. The orders were approved by the Appeals Board. The three residents of Judaea and Samaria petitioned the High Court of Justice against the orders.

The petitioners argued that the orders were contrary to international law. In particular the petitioners argued that Judaea and Samaria should be regarded as a different belligerent occupation from the one in the Gaza Strip, and therefore the orders amounted to a deportation from one territory to another, …