From my own experience, there is also over 30 years lag for design activity:
1. AI and Machine learning has been in active use in large design projects since the 1980s
2. Robotics (I delivered one of the first robotics courses in engineering for Further Education the UK in the mid-1980s).
3. Hybrid and commercial design activities on electric car design is from the 1970s.
4. Bridging of social and environmental design into engineering design education is from the 1970s
5. Open source programming (1970s)
6. Modelling for solving wicked problems (1970s/80s)
7. Solar power/wind power/hydro for domestic and industrial power from 60s and 70s.
8.Insitutional and professional organisation expressing concerns to governments about global warming, CO2 and climate change (1950s -1970s)
9. Environmental and eco-product design from 1970s-80s
10. Government action on climate change from fossil fuels (In UK - 1950s- coal; 1970s planning natural habitat areas to lose on sea level rise...)
11. Use of nuclear power to save the world by avoiding use of fossil fuels causing climate change proposed to governments in 1950s and 60s
12. Automated graphic design (1970s)
13. Importance of using design methods to improve quality of design output (1950s)
14. Idea of network of small 'personal' computers and use of computers in design - 1960s
15. Computer viruses and worms - 1960s (Brunner)
....
Best wishes,
Terry
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Hi All,
I want your opinion on something: evidence and research if you have it.
I have just read:
https://www.mckinsey.com/~/media/McKinsey/Business Functions/McKinsey Design/Our insights/The business value of design/The-business-value-of-design-vF.ashx
What struck me most of all was that this is a catch up that is about 30 years out of date.
The 30 years resonated with me because when we began CRI in 1985, we could see the need for CRI in the fact that most private and public organisations we consulted in our feasibility study for setting up CRI were using methods and modes of thought in solving communication problems that were about 30 years out of date. We saw our role, in part, as narrowing that gap.
Bruce Archer, at a conference at Coventry University in 2000 on Collaborative Design, said that he saw a 30 year gap the between design research and thinking on the one hand and design practice on the other hand.
More recently Nigel Cross wrote:
It seems that it takes a generation, at least twenty-five years, maybe thirty years or more, for the things that perhaps seemed ‘ivory tower’ research projects and ideas to become embedded in practice.
Nigel Cross (2018) Developing design as a discipline, Journal of EngineeringDesign, 29:12, 691-708, DOI: 10.1080/09544828.2018.1537481
Are we always doomed to this time lag?
David
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