Showing papers in "Design Studies in 1982"

TL;DR: The nature of educational enquiry is different from that of research in the natural sciences, which has often been mistakenly adopted as a paradigm as mentioned in this paper, and the nature of enquiry must be based on educational practice and must start from the experience of educational action.

TL;DR: In this paper, a brief review of recent trends in educational research, with some comments on applying research methods in the context of design education, is presented, along with suggestions for classroom-based research that teachers themselves can do.

TL;DR: In this article, it is argued that the significance of design can only be understood by focusing on design activity and that design activity has wider social significance than has previously been thought, and that the related use of analogical models to explain or account for design prevents real understanding of what design is.

TL;DR: In this article, a theory of mind is proposed which leads to the conclusion that design processes are outside the bounds of verbal description and are a systematization of our experience, in particular the Kantian view of perception as limited by an priori conceptual framework.

TL;DR: This paper introduces rule-based programming and illustrates its use with two programs, R1 and XSEL, which are used by Digital Equipment Corporation in the design of computer system configurations.

TL;DR: A recent goal in computer aided design is the representation of a design artifact in a form sufficient to support all analyses and to determine that the design is realizable.

TL;DR: Major issues in design participation and particularly in the use of PARTIAL, a computer-based aid are identified and must be tackled by the architect and the social scientist if user involvement in building design is to be a reality.

TL;DR: In this paper, a case history is presented which analyses a UK-based small firm and some of the problems experienced by small firms engaged in product design and development activities are examined.

TL;DR: In this article, a synthesis of the concept of 55 year economic cycles with ideas on achievement motivation to suggest that design also undergoes cyclical changes is presented, where design based on optimism and faith in the future is replaced by design drawing its inspiration from the past.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe the development of a POE (post occupancy evaluation) program for evaluating government buildings in New Zealand under a research contract from the New Zealand MWD (Ministry of Works and Development).

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors draw on the history and philosophy of science to make design theory more respectable, and draw parallels between the use of logic in science and design, and make some observations about designing under constraints.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors look at developments in architecural design techniques over the past few decades and suggest a redefinition and a diversification of participatory architectural design methods.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors trace advice given by a UK government department on the design of school buildings over the past 30 years and identify preferred patterns of building use contained within this advice through analysis of departmental publications.

TL;DR: A brief review of recent trends in design education in schools in the UK can be found in this paper, where a steady growth over the last decade has been accompanied by a parallel growth in the study of the implications of design for child learning and pedagogic practice.

TL;DR: In this paper, a parable introduces three principles by which to justify decision-making in planning and design: the principle of indifference or chance, absolute truth and idoneity, where the idoneus is "that which is proper to, and conforms with, the ends and intentions".

TL;DR: In this paper, a model of technological activity is presented which makes provision for the variety of tasks which are likely to be met by a person working in the field of chemical engineering.

TL;DR: In this article, a match between what is required of operating staff and what operating staff are capable of doing and indeed actually do is made between man and machine, sometimes resulting in low yields or minor accidents, and, occasionally, major accidents.

TL;DR: In this article, the essential background to the problems of design for a developing world in which mixed and ambiguous values and lifestyles are rapidly becoming the norm is provided, which prepares the ground for an ensuing treatment of fields of identity.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the three cultures approach, art, science and design, rejecting it in favour of an integrative approach and suggest that this is more likely to allow design practitioners in different fields to communicate with each other.