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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Best wishes,
Terry
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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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