For what it's worth, I have one anecdotal data point for you.
I was once involved in designing a system to suspend lighting in a small art
gallery. There was another professor from Ryerson there, for other reasons.
We got to talking. When we discovered that we both taught design, she
asked me how I regard the design process. I told her it's (1) figuring out
what the needs really are, (2) generating lots of ideas, (3) choosing one
based on some justifiable rationale, and (4) detailing it all out.
She said that was just how she taught it too.
Then she asked me what kind of design I taught. I told her it was
engineering design.
She was a font designer.
I'm convinced that designing - the overall process of it - is uniform or at
least generalizable from every design discipline. It's just the domain
knowledge that changes.
Just my 2 cents.
Cheers.
Fil
On 20 September 2011 19:30, McAuley, Mike <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hi Terry,
> At the moment my net is cast very wide and is all encompassing. To describe
> where I am at in analogical terms, I have just begun sketching and
> thumbnailing. I am essentially just scoping at the moment. So there is no
> unease for me at this point in time to be excluding any areas considered to
> be within the field of design. So, if the differences are in the details, I
> may well find them. Perhaps, at a certain level I will be able to argue
> that, for example, the process of writing a song is the same as visually
> illustrating a text. Although, already I am discovering that, because I
> can't 'see' musical ideas, my process is very kinaesthetic, the sounds have
> to exist in reality, not in my head.
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> On Sep 21, 2011, at 11:22 AM, Terence Love wrote:
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> Hi Mike,
> Are you also including engineering design and software design in your
> 'creative disciplines'?
> Terry
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> From: PhD-Design - This list is for discussion of PhD studies and related
> research in Design [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
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> Mike
> Sent: Wednesday, 21 September 2011 6:45 AM
> To: Dr Terence Love
> Subject: differences in process between design and other creative
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> I would be interested to know if anyone is doing work which seeks to
> establish differences in process between design and other creative
> disciplines such as music. Obviously outcomes/artefacts are different, but
> are the processes the same? If they are indeed the same, then why do we
> differentiate the design process from the creative process? Questions,
> questions.This is my new, post PhD research direction and one which I seek
> to partly pursue through my own creative practice as a musician and
> illustrator. In my previous work I used Swann's (2002) design process model
> to help describe the processes of my illustration students when they
> interpreted written text into illustrations. Here is the link to the thesis
> if anyone is interested.http://mro.massey.ac.nz/handle/10179/1046
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> Creative practice as research method is a new venture for me, but I do
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> that having undergone the rigours of a traditional PhD I may now be in a
> position to develop verifiable knowledge. If I don't, well I'm going to
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> SENIOR LECTURER, SUBJECT DIRECTOR,
> ILLUSTRATION
> Institute of Communication Design
> College of Creative Arts
> Massey University
> Museum Building
> Buckle Street
> Wellington
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