Dear Fil and Lars
Three books that I have obtained recently deal with these ideas at a
very high level of clarity and understanding.
Brian Lawson (2004). What Designers Know, Elsevier Architectural Press,
Oxford
Peter Downton (2003). Design Research, RMIT University Press, Melbourne
Nigel Cross (2006). Designerly Ways of Knowing, Springer- Verlag, London
The second, unfortunately does not have an index but the chapterisation
and sub-headings are fairly good pointers for finding the core offerings
in the book.
All three have an excellent bibliography with further pointers that
would be of value for your research.
With warm regards
M P Ranjan
from my office at NID
1 July 2007 at 8.05 pm IST
Prof M P Ranjan
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Lars Albinsson wrote:
> Donald Schvn writes on the notion of problems as a driver for design and
> development. Argues that problem solving in many cases is a too narrow
> notion of design
>
> Nelson and Stolterman present an excellent reasoning on how problems and
> potential ideas or "solutions" both are part of the design process, not
> necessarily in any particular order.
>
> I have gone through a bit of literature as part of my dissertation and find
> that different writers have very different ideas about what a "problem" is.
> For some a "problem" is by definition the starting point of design, for
> instance a brief. Others use problem-solution to indicate an engineering
> type of process, which often is regarded to be "un-creative" or too
> limiting.
>
> Harfield is on to this and argues that the designer also re-define the
> problem as part of the process.
>
> I think there is room for more work on this!!
>
> /Lars
>
> Schvn, D. A. (1983). The reflective practitioner: How professionals think in
> action. New York: Basic Books.
>
> Nelson, H. G., & Stolterman, E. (2003). The design way: Intentional change
> in an unpredictable world: Foundations and fundamentals of design
> competence. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Educational Technology Publications.
>
> Harfield, S. (2007). On design `problematization': Theorising differences in
> designed outcomes. Design Studies, 28(2), 159.
>
>
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> research in Design [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Fvr Filippo A Salustri
> Skickat: den 30 juni 2007 19:23
> Till: [log in to unmask]
> Dmne: looking for references on "problem solving" as a perspective on design
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm thinking about the notion of "problem solving" as it relates to
> designing. I know some people believe strongly in the notion of
> problems and solutions; I also know others would disagree.
>
> I have access to literature within engineering on this sort of thing.
> What I would be interested in is a few references to documents from
> outside engineering, but as close as possible to design generally.
>
> What are the viewpoints on defining things as 'problems' and 'solutions'?
>
> Again, I'm not looking for huge bibliographies. Just a few key (in your
> own minds) references to get me started.
>
> Cheers.
> Fil
>
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