Dear Terry
I remember that I looked for this kind of literature last spring without
substantial findings. And following your recent email I additionally
asked a few colleagues in the core of the design research field.
However, they were also curious about the body of knowledge you refer
to. Thus, I would be very grateful, if you could provide some links to
the substantial number of case studies in the 60s, 70s, 80s about
individual designers working under some form of constraint. Best wishes
Claus.
Am 23.01.11 23:24, schrieb Terence Love:
> Dear Claus,
> Thanks for your message.
> Where did you look and what search strategy did you use?
> Cheers,
> Terry
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Claus Noppeney [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Monday, 24 January 2011 3:44 AM
> To: Terence Love
> Cc: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Short (product) design task for study on creativity
>
> Dear Terence,
>
> indeed, this sounds very interesting. However, I have had some
> difficulty to locate the substantial number of case studies in the 60s,
> 70s, 80s about individual designers working under some form of
> constraint. Thus, I would be very greatful, if you could provide some
> references.
>
> Thanks a lot.
>
> Best wishes
>
> Claus.
>
> Am 21.01.11 07:34, schrieb Terence Love:
>> Dear Balder,
>> Two areas of past design research might be useful. There has been a
>> substantial number of case studies in 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s about
> individual
>> designers doing designs under some form of constraint. Second, the idea of
>> constraints in design as a way of developing design solutions is widely
>> developed in the literature of engineering design research. In fact,
>> 'creativity through design constraints' is one of the central design
> methods
>> and methodological perspectives in many fields of engineering design
>> practice and goes back at least to the late 50s.
>> There is a substantial body of design theory on not only using constraints
>> in developing creative solutions but also using the shape of the
> 'constraint
>> field' as a means of identifying the most optimal areas within the
> creative
>> solution space.
>> Best regards,
>> Terence
>>
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>> Terry
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>> research in Design [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Balder
>> Onarheim
>> Sent: Friday, 21 January 2011 10:18 AM
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Short (product) design task for study on creativity
>>
>> Dear list,
>> I'm writing a PhD about the relationship between creativity and
>> constraints (any references on that topic is of course highly
>> appreciated!), and I'm now in the phase of developing pilot studies
>> with students and professional designers.
>>
>> In the study I'll have teams of two designers working 90 minutes with
>> producing a design solution for a given (product) design problem. The
>> challenging part is to find a good design task that is possible to
>> "solve" in about an hour, without giving too many constraints, and
>> that most people will have relevant background knowledge to work with.
>>
>> I've considered classical experimental tasks like the measure cup for
>> blind users, bike rack, device for mounting backpack on bike,
>> automated cloak-room and spill proof cup, but if anyone on this list
>> have experiences with using other tasks please let me know!
>>
>> Thanks a lot,
>>
>> Balder Onarheim
>>
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