Dear Doris and all
I put together on my blog a while back a list of readings that I find to be
core in design theory.
(you can find the post here
http://transground.blogspot.com/search/label/philosophy%20of%20design)
Here is the list, it is still tentative of course and from my personal
perspective:
Alexander, C. (1979). The Timeless Way of Building. Oxford University Press.
Buchanan, R. Wicked Problems in Design Thinking. In The Idea of Design. V.
Margolin and R. Buchanan (eds). MIT Press, 1995, 3-20.
Buxton, B. (2007) Sketching User Experience – getting the design right and
the right design. Morgan Kaufman.
Cross, N. (2007). Designerly Ways of Knowing. Birkhauser, Basel.
Dewey, J. (1934) Art as Experience. New York: Perigee Books.
Dorst, C. H. (2003). Understanding Design. Amsterdam: BIS Publisher.
Dunne, J. (1993). Back to the Rough Ground: ‘Phronesis’ and ‘Techné’ in
Modern Philosophy and in Aristotle. Notre Dame, IN. University of Notre Dame
Press.
Frayling, C. Research in Art and Design. Royal College of Art Research
Papers, 1, 1 (1993), 1-5.
Heskett, J. (2002). Design – A Very Short Introduction. Oxford. Oxford
Press.
Janlert, L-E. & Stolterman, E. (1997). The character of things. in Design
Studies, Vol 18, No 3, July (1997), 297-314.
Krippendorff, K. (2006) The Semantic Turn – A New Foundation for Design. CRC
Press.
Lawson, B. (2005). How designers think – the design process demystified.
Architectural Press.
Lawson, B. and Dorst, K. (2009). Design Expertise. Architectural Press.
Nelson, H. & Stolterman, E. (2003). The Design Way -- Intentional Change in
an Unpredictable World. Educational Technology Publications. New Jersey.
Pye, D. (1969) The Nature and Aesthetics of Design. Cambium Press; Reprint
edition (July 1995)
Rittel, H, W. & Webber, M. M. (1974). Dilemmas in General Theory of
Planning. in Design Research and Methods, 8 (No. 1): 31-39.
Schön, D. A. (1983). The Reflective Practitioner. New York, NY. Basic Books.
Schön, D. A. (1991). The reflective practitioner : how professionals think
in action. Aldershot England: Arena.
Simon, H. A. (1996). The sciences of the artificial (3rd ed.). Cambridge,
Mass.: MIT Press.
Stolterman, E. The Nature of Design Practice and Implications for
Interaction Design Research. in International Journal of Design, 2, 1
(2008), 55-65.
Best
Erik
On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 6:43 AM, Doris Kosminsky <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I'm writing a text and preparing a course in Design Theory and would be
> glad
> to hear opinions, comments and ideas of the members of this list.
>
> I think that design never had a theoretical corpus of its own, although it
> made use of some theories borrowed from other fields, like the gestalt from
> psychology. I also recognize a great value over the Product Language
> Theory.
> Besides this, in the last decades, with the advent of the post-modern and
> the concept of the end of the great narratives, even those theories were
> questioned. My question is, which theories would you think are still valid
> in design teaching nowadays?
>
> Thank you and best wishes,
>
>
> Doris Kosminsky
> Professor - Escola de Belas Artes
> Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro - UFRJ
>
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