Hello,
In design research, the work of designers and the role of gender, its
probably worth reminding ourselves that the vast majority of design work,
design research and content of conferences is less exciting than implied by
some of the posts in the recent discussions. An example is the following
conference presentation on summarising important design research information
for designing in current contexts a particular field of design:
The session is entitled "Sound Engineering Piping Practice for Modern
Building Services" and presented by Mr. Reuben Ang, Engineering Manager
Victaulic - Asia Pacific, Shanghai.
"Today's construction challenges include tight budget, tight schedule and
minimum allotted space for M&E services. The mechanical grooved piping
system is an alternative to conventional piping methods of welding, flanging
and threading. The talk will review the history of piping and the grooved
method invented more than 80 years ago and consider the following.
1. Methods for accommodating pipe offset such as couplings offering
designers a method to accommodate offsets due to misalignment or building
settlement.
2. Calculating and accommodating pipeline thermal growth.
3. Considerations for accommodating thermal expansion and contraction.
4. Vibration attenuation characteristics.
5. Prevention of the transmission of objectionable vibration induced
by piping systems to the building structure.
6. Seismic considerations."
The DRS and the Phd-design list tend to overemphasise the design research in
Art and Design domains of design. It may be worth reflecting on established
practices the other (majority) design research domains?
Best wishes
Terry
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