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
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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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> Best wishes,
> Terry
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> Sent: Friday, 21 January 2011 10:18 AM
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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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