Dear all
I´m looking for a PHD in the US related to sustainable design, social
design, design for disabilities, any specific place to go?
Also researching about gender and industrial design, any good
reference to start?
Thanks! Kind regards!
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> Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2016 08:51:53 +0800
> From: Terence Love <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: The term "design space"
>
> Dear Stuart,
>
> The current origins of the terms 'design space' are from design researchers
> with a mathematical background.
>
> The use of the term 'design space' in the current body of work on design
> and
> design research goes back to the 70s at least. Around 1972, I was writing
> reports on design research projects using it. It was common language along
> with the ideas of solution space, problem space, search space, and the
> mathematical modelling of such spaces from the point of view of identifying
> optimal design solutions.
>
> It was also evident in the mid-60s in the work of Zwicky and colleagues
> using morphological analysis to find optimal solutions for what later
> became
> known as wicked problems. This was when causal modelling methods were not
> so
> well developed for complex situations.
>
> You can also see some evidence of the idea of design space in many
> translations of publications of early Islamic science. I haven't checked
> but
> I'd also expect to find it in Patanjali's works.
>
> From memory, there is substantial use of the term in Design Studies papers
> relating to architecture in the 1980s. In that case it accompanied the
> application of neural nets and other AI methods to architecture and urban
> planning.
>
> Best wishes,
> Terence
>
> ---
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> PhD(UWA), BA(Hons) Engin. PGCEd, FDRS, PMACM, MISI
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> Hi
>
> I wondered whether anyone here had any references to any discussions about
> the term "design space".
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> Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2016 04:41:50 +0000
> From: Klaus Krippendorff <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: The term "design space"
>
> yes,
> terry,
> i learned about design space from horst rittel who mentioned zwicky's
> morphology in the late 1950s to early 1960's. i recently stumbled upon a
> youtube and was surprised to see him talking about that. naturally, that
> conception became a defining part of "the semantic turn; a new foundation
> for design."
> klaus
>
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> research in Design [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Terence
> Love
> Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2016 7:52 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: The term "design space"
>
> Dear Stuart,
>
> The current origins of the terms 'design space' are from design researchers
> with a mathematical background.
>
> The use of the term 'design space' in the current body of work on design and
> design research goes back to the 70s at least. Around 1972, I was writing
> reports on design research projects using it. It was common language along
> with the ideas of solution space, problem space, search space, and the
> mathematical modelling of such spaces from the point of view of identifying
> optimal design solutions.
>
> It was also evident in the mid-60s in the work of Zwicky and colleagues
> using morphological analysis to find optimal solutions for what later became
> known as wicked problems. This was when causal modelling methods were not so
> well developed for complex situations.
>
> You can also see some evidence of the idea of design space in many
> translations of publications of early Islamic science. I haven't checked but
> I'd also expect to find it in Patanjali's works.
>
> From memory, there is substantial use of the term in Design Studies papers
> relating to architecture in the 1980s. In that case it accompanied the
> application of neural nets and other AI methods to architecture and urban
> planning.
>
> Best wishes,
> Terence
>
> ---
> Dr Terence Love
> PhD(UWA), BA(Hons) Engin. PGCEd, FDRS, PMACM, MISI Love Services Pty Ltd PO
> Box 226, Quinns Rocks Western Australia 6030
> Tel: +61 (0)4 3497 5848
> [log in to unmask]
> www.loveservices.com.au
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>
>
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> Hi
>
> I wondered whether anyone here had any references to any discussions about
> the term "design space".
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> Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2016 07:58:45 +0000
> From: Stanislav Roudavski <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: redesigning design: references
>
> Dear all,
>
> What are the key references that show, or argue, that design itself needs to
> be redesigned, and for the significance thereof?
>
> Thank you,
>
> Stanislav
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> Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2016 08:42:20 +0000
> From: Kommonen Kari-Hans <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: The term "design space"
>
> Dear Stuart,
>
>> I wondered whether anyone here had any references to any discussions about
>> the term "design space".
>
>
> Two recent dissertations deal extensively with the theme of "design space"
> from a design perspective:
>
> Bo Westerlund's dissertations "Design Space Exploration – co-operative
> creation of proposals for desired interactions with future artefacts"
> http://www.bowesterlund.se/thesis.html
> pdf: http://kth.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:241661/FULLTEXT02.pdf
>
> Andrea Botero's dissertation "Expanding design space(s) : design in communal
> endeavours"
> https://aaltodoc.aalto.fi/handle/123456789/11261
> pdf:
> https://aaltodoc.aalto.fi/bitstream/handle/123456789/11261/isbn9789526051741.pdf?sequence=1
>
> Here is also a paper by Andrea, myself and Sanna Marttila about the theme:
> https://www.academia.edu/883993/Expanding_Design_Space_Design-In-Use_Activities_and_Strategies
> pdf: http://www.designresearchsociety.org/docs-procs/DRS2010/PDF/018.pdf
>
>
> These have several useful additional references for you.
>
>
> cheers, Kari-Hans
> ------------------
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> Director, Arki research group
>
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> Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2016 10:10:26 +0100
> From: Chris Heape <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: The term "design space"
>
>>> I wondered whether anyone here had any references to any discussions
>>> about the term "design space".
>
>
> Hi Stuart,
>
> One more:
>
> The Design Space: the design process as the construction, exploration and
> expansion of a conceptual space
>
> https://dl.dropbox.com/u/18200550/%2ADesign%20Space%20complete%2A%20-%20A4.pdf
> <https://dl.dropbox.com/u/18200550/*Design%20Space%20complete*%20-%20A4.pdf>
>
> Best,
>
> Chris.
>
> ----------
>
> from:
>
> Chris Heape PhD
> Design Research Consultant
>
> research: design process - design education - design anthropology
>
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> https://dl.dropbox.com/u/18200550/%2ADesign%20Space%20complete%2A%20-%20A4.pdf
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> Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2016 10:20:49 +0000
> From: Stuart Reeves <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: The term "design space"
>
> Great, thanks Chris, Cameron, Terence, Laus and Kari-Hans!
>
>
>
>> On 18 Feb 2016, at 09:10, Chris Heape <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>>>> I wondered whether anyone here had any references to any discussions
>>>> about the term "design space".
>>
>>
>> Hi Stuart,
>>
>> One more:
>>
>> The Design Space: the design process as the construction, exploration and
>> expansion of a conceptual space
>>
>> https://dl.dropbox.com/u/18200550/%2ADesign%20Space%20complete%2A%20-%20A4.pdf
>> <https://dl.dropbox.com/u/18200550/*Design%20Space%20complete*%20-%20A4.pdf>
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Chris.
>>
>> ----------
>>
>> from:
>>
>> Chris Heape PhD
>> Design Research Consultant
>>
>> research: design process - design education - design anthropology
>>
>> SDU Design Research
>> Design Anthropology Group
>> Mads Clausen Institute
>> University of Southern Denmark
>> Universitetsparken 1 · 6000 · Kolding
>> Denmark
>>
>> Work at work:
>> e.mail: [log in to unmask]
>> tel: +45 6550 1287
>>
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>> tel: +45 2620 0385
>>
>> PhD
>> https://dl.dropbox.com/u/18200550/%2ADesign%20Space%20complete%2A%20-%20A4.pdf
>>
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>>
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> Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2016 11:30:17 +0000
> From: Peter Dalsgaard <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: The term "design space"
>
> Hi Stuart,
>
> I was about to mention Chris Heape's dissertation, but he beat me to it.
>
> Michael Biskjaer, Kim Halskov, and I wrote a paper for DIS14 about using the
> concept of constraints to understand design spaces. It also draws on
> Zwicky's morphological analysis.
> Michael Mose Biskjaer, Peter Dalsgaard, and Kim Halskov. 2014. A
> constraint-based understanding of design spaces. In Proceedings of the 2014
> conference on Designing interactive systems (DIS '14). ACM, New York, NY,
> USA, 453-462. DOI=http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2598510.2598533
> http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2598533
>
> The notion of problem-solution space might also be relevant, e.g. this one:
> Stefan Wiltschnig, Bo T. Christensen, Linden J. Ball, Collaborative
> problem–solution co-evolution in creative design, Design Studies, Volume 34,
> Issue 5, September 2013, Pages 515-542, ISSN 0142-694X,
> http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.destud.2013.01.002.
> (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0142694X13000033)
>
> Best,
> Peter
> ____
>
> Peter Dalsgaard
>
> Associate Professor, PhD
> Center for Advanced Visualisation and Interaction (CAVI)
> Department of Information Studies and Digital Design
> Aarhus University
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> Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2016 17:41:51 +0200
> From: Nigan Bayazit <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: The term "design space"
>
> Dear Stuart,
>
> In architecture we 'design space'. It is our job. Before we read Zwicky or
> H.Rittel, we are thought to design space in our project design studios. It
> is relevant to every body in architecture. We can not think architecture
> without designing space.
>
> Best,
> Nigan Bayazit (Emeritus)
> İstanbul Technical University
> Faculty of Architecture
>
> [log in to unmask]
>
>
> 2016-02-18 1:27 GMT+02:00 Stuart Reeves <[log in to unmask]>:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> I wondered whether anyone here had any references to any discussions
>> about
>> the term "design space".
>>
>> The concept is prevalent in HCI I think; the classical use being design
>> spaces organised / and traversed via the assistance of cognitive theory
>> as
>> in the case of input devices, but there are various ways in which the
>> term
>> is used and intended beyond this in HCI. A cursory look around the CS
>> literature also reveals different areas of CS using it in particular ways
>> (e.g., design automation, computer architecture, etc.).
>>
>> I thought it must also have quite a bit of vintage in design and design
>> research that I'm not very aware of. I think(?) some of this might start
>> with Simon but I am unsure.
>>
>> I've had a look at the archives of this mailing list and couldn't really
>> find much discussion of the term itself (although there is plenty of
>> use).
>>
>> So I wondered whether anyone had written directly about the term before?
>> Or if anyone has any thoughts on the different ways in which the term /
>> concept is used?
>>
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> --
>>
>> Stuart Reeves
>>
>> Mixed Reality Lab
>> School of Computer Science (C15), University of Nottingham
>> [log in to unmask]
>> http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~str
>>
>> Latest papers:
>> - Embeddedness and sequentiality in social media (http://bit.ly/1WlQiaN)
>> - HCI as science (http://bit.ly/1LHG9OB)
>>
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> Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2016 18:04:53 +0200
> From: Asim Evren Yantaç <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: The term "design space"
>
> Hi,
>
> HCI uses this term with a different perspective, (which is not easy to
> explain) to discuss more about the overall look at the possible design
> solutions/alternatives/concerns on one specific research/design question.
>
> But haven't encountered any concrete discussion on the use of this phrase
> in the literature yet.
>
> Best.
>
>
> Assoc. Prof. Dr. Asım Evren YANTAC
> . Media and Visual Arts Dept <http://mava.ku.edu.tr/>., Koc University,
> Head
> of the Department
> . Research Center for Creative Industries <http://designlab.ku.edu.tr/>,
> Koc
> University <http://ku.edu.tr/>, Interactive Information Des. RG Head
> . Turkish Foundation for Education and Support for Autistic Individuals,
> TODEV, Board of Directors
> Contact: [log in to unmask] / 0533 225 9109
>
> On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 5:41 PM, Nigan Bayazit <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> Dear Stuart,
>>
>> In architecture we 'design space'. It is our job. Before we read Zwicky
>> or
>> H.Rittel, we are thought to design space in our project design studios.
>> It
>> is relevant to every body in architecture. We can not think architecture
>> without designing space.
>>
>> Best,
>> Nigan Bayazit (Emeritus)
>> İstanbul Technical University
>> Faculty of Architecture
>>
>> [log in to unmask]
>>
>>
>> 2016-02-18 1:27 GMT+02:00 Stuart Reeves <[log in to unmask]>:
>>
>> > Hi
>> >
>> > I wondered whether anyone here had any references to any discussions
>> about
>> > the term "design space".
>> >
>> > The concept is prevalent in HCI I think; the classical use being design
>> > spaces organised / and traversed via the assistance of cognitive theory
>> as
>> > in the case of input devices, but there are various ways in which the
>> term
>> > is used and intended beyond this in HCI. A cursory look around the CS
>> > literature also reveals different areas of CS using it in particular
>> > ways
>> > (e.g., design automation, computer architecture, etc.).
>> >
>> > I thought it must also have quite a bit of vintage in design and design
>> > research that I'm not very aware of. I think(?) some of this might
>> > start
>> > with Simon but I am unsure.
>> >
>> > I've had a look at the archives of this mailing list and couldn't
>> > really
>> > find much discussion of the term itself (although there is plenty of
>> use).
>> >
>> > So I wondered whether anyone had written directly about the term
>> > before?
>> > Or if anyone has any thoughts on the different ways in which the term /
>> > concept is used?
>> >
>> >
>> > Thanks.
>> >
>> > --
>> >
>> > Stuart Reeves
>> >
>> > Mixed Reality Lab
>> > School of Computer Science (C15), University of Nottingham
>> > [log in to unmask]
>> > http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~str
>> >
>> > Latest papers:
>> > - Embeddedness and sequentiality in social media
>> > (http://bit.ly/1WlQiaN)
>> > - HCI as science (http://bit.ly/1LHG9OB)
>> >
>> >
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> Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2016 09:52:09 -0800
> From: Derek Lomas <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: PHD-DESIGN Digest - 16 Feb 2016 to 17 Feb 2016 (#2016-47)
>
> Hello Stuart and list!
>
> A design space is the space of possible variation in any design. In
> professional practice, the term "design space" is rather commonplace.
> Designers often sketch out the space of possible design variability as a
> way to generate ideas and avoid fixation on a particular point solution.
> Design spaces are also used for classifying existing designs, in order to
> suggest unexplored options (Shaw, 2012). However, because the potential
> design space of any endeavor is infinite, significant creativity is
> required to bound design spaces (with constraints) and to identify which
> (of an infinite many) dimensions to vary, in order to produce meaningful
> outcomes. Design dimensions don't come for free -- they must be discovered.
> Design dimensions include both input parameters (e.g., font size) or its
> output functions (e.g., the "readability" or "playfulness" of a font).
>
> The first instance of the term “design space” that I could find was in
> 1965, when it was already commonplace in structural engineering.
>
> “Many modern techniques for the optimum synthesis of structures are based
> upon the concept of a design space. In an S-dimensional design space, each
> Cartesian coordinate axis represents a design variable, and thus a point in
> this space D = (d1,d2,…ds) represents a design. Furthermore, each design
> has associated with it a value of the objective function (weight, cost,
> etc.) and has a behavior as determined by the application of an analysis
> method.” (Fox, 1965)
>
>
> This work was preceded by the notion of a "Design Parameter Space" (Schmit,
> 1960). But even before that, statisticians had developed a generalized
> statistical understanding of how to determine the effects of design factors
> on outcomes, via experimentation. They didn't call it a design space, but
> talked about manipulating the "factor space", the "design matrix" or even
> the "independent variable matrix."
>
> For instance, in 1951, Box and Wilson write:
>
> “In the whole k dimensional factor space, there is a region R, bounded by
> practical limitation to change in the factors, which we call the
> experimental region. The problem is to find, in the smallest number of
> experiments, the point ...[where the outcome is] a maximum or a minimum. In
> our field, yield, purity or cost of product are the responses which have to
> be maximized (or minimized in the case of cost). The factors affecting
> these responses are variables such as temperature, pressure, time of
> reaction, proportions of the reactants.”
>
>
> Thus, the core idea of a design space is that a single design can be seen
> as a point solution in a vast space of possible solutions that are
> organized by dimensions (design factors) of design variability. This is a
> very simple and powerful idea. In no small part, the power comes from the
> fact that there are long established statistical mechanisms for
> demonstrating the causal effects of various design factors on outcomes. As
> design is often seen as a field bereft of empirical evidence, the notion of
> a design space is provides a powerful framework for statistical theory
> development.
>
> In 1971, Bell and Allen Newell described the design space of computers,
> which they referred to as a computer space:
>
> “There are, then, three main ways to classify or describe a computer
> system: according to its function, its performance, or its structure. Each
> consists in turn of a number of dimensions. It is useful to think of all
> these dimensions as making up a large space in which any computer system
> can be located as a point.”
>
> They asserted that these terms could be applied to any designed system: for
> instance, an automobile might have a function like goods transport or
> racing, performance measures like speed or cargo capacity and structure
> like the number of wheels or color. They note that a subsystem’s
> performance might become a system’s structure; for instance, horsepower can
> be the performance of an engine but treated as a structural element for the
> car. They say:
>
> “Structure determines performance, although from the standpoint of design,
> of course, causality runs the other way: from function to performance to
> structure.”
>
>
> Note that a vast number of structural design dimensions can be simplified
> into a much smaller number of functional design factors. For instance, in
> my own experimental design work, I've found that the effects of many game
> design structural features can be modeled using the functional dimension of
> "difficulty" and "novelty." The opportunity afforded by large online
> experiments is really phenomenal for the field of interaction design, as it
> allows for much easier quantitative measurement of design spaces and
> empirical theory development. In my work, I use large scale online design
> experiments to explore the design space of video games and to develop
> generalizable theory, as in:
>
> 1.
> https://www.researchgate.net/publication/262350490_Optimizing_challenge_in_an_educational_game_using_large-scale_design_experiments
> 2.
> https://www.researchgate.net/publication/282251802_Interface_Design_Optimization_as_a_Multi-Armed_Bandit_Problem?ev=prf_pub
> 3. my thesis:
> https://www.researchgate.net/publication/282251834_Optimizing_Motivation_and_Learning_with_Large-Scale_Game_Design_Experiments?ev=prf_pub
>
>
> I hope these references are useful. I'm currently working on a paper about
> "Design Spaces, Experimental Design and Design Theory", which obviously
> isn't complete or I would have just sent that :)
>
> Thanks!
>
> Derek Lomas
> Design Fellow
> The Design Lab, UCSD
>
>
> *References:*
> Shaw, M. (2012). The Role of Design Spaces. IEEE Software, 29, 46–50.
> Schmit, L. A. (1960). Structural Design by Systematic Synthesis. In *2nd
> Conference on Electronic Computation, American Society of Civil Engineers*
> (pp.
> 105–132).
> R.L.Fox. (1965). Constraint surface normals for structural synthesis
> techniques. AIAA J., 3(8), 1517–1518.Box, G., & Wilson, K. (1951). On the
> Experimental Attainment of Optimum Conditions. *Journal of the Royal
> Statistical Society. Series B (Methodological)*, *13*(1), 1–45.
> Bell, C. G., & Newell, A. (1971). Computer Structures: Readings and
> Examples.
>
>
>
>> > On Feb 17, 2016, at 6:27 PM, Stuart Reeves <[log in to unmask]>
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> > I wondered whether anyone here had any references to any discussions
>> about the term "design space".
>>
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> Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2016 22:03:43 +0000
> From: Stuart Reeves <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: The term "design space"
>
>> HCI uses this term with a different perspective, (which is not easy to
>> explain) to discuss more about the overall look at the possible design
>> solutions/alternatives/concerns on one specific research/design question.
>>
>> But haven't encountered any concrete discussion on the use of this phrase
>> in the literature yet.
>
> Yes, I was not meaning "design space" as in "the design of space" as an
> architectural matter but rather "design space" as a concept / way of
> describing design possibilities via a spatial metaphor.
>
> I think the HCI use of the term is mixed in many senses, e.g.,
>
> as a synonym for a loose taxonomy,
>
> as a indication of a broad range of design possibilities (often this is
> rhetorical in the sense of convincing others that one's research is
> generative and not a single instance---e.g, that it opens up a design
> space),
>
> as a formal method for engineering interfaces,
>
> as above, but with an additional 'scientific' edge whereby design spaces are
> traversed / mapped out / evaluated using theoretical concepts from cognitive
> science (this is the only sense of "design space" that I've actually written
> stuff on so far).
>
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> Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2016 23:12:43 +0000
> From: Nicola Parkin <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: The term "design space"
>
> The concept of design space as a conceptual working space is without doubt a
> useful tool for designers - allowing us to ask questions useful to the
> processes of designing (what, who, how, and why etc). But the way I see it,
> the real value of the design space is that it gives space for attending - a
> way of attending to our attending. The 'space' itself is whatever we need it
> to be, and its edges shift as they need to. What is important is that we
> attend designfully. The 'design space', then, is perhaps a space we make (in
> our lives) for designing.
>
> Just my thoughts.
>
> Humbly, Nicola
>
>
> Nicola Parkin
> Senior Educational Designer
> Centre for Innovation in Learning & Teaching
> Flinders University, South Australia
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>>> I wondered whether anyone here had any references to any discussions
>>> about the term "design space".
>
>
> Hi Stuart,
>
> One more:
>
> The Design Space: the design process as the construction, exploration and
> expansion of a conceptual space
>
> https://dl.dropbox.com/u/18200550/%2ADesign%20Space%20complete%2A%20-%20A4.pdf
> <https://dl.dropbox.com/u/18200550/*Design%20Space%20complete*%20-%20A4.pdf>
>
> Best,
>
> Chris.
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