scholarly journals French Biological Philosophy of Technology as a Candidate Perspective Furthering Design Methodology

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1493-1502
Author(s):  
Sander Mulder
Keyword(s):  
Design Methodology ◽  
Philosophy Of Technology ◽  
Artificial Kidney ◽  
Real Case ◽  
Design Team ◽  
Generative Design ◽  
Perspective Drawing ◽  
Human Intention ◽  
Domestic Setting ◽  
Gilbert Simondon

AbstractA first exploration is conducted to what the French biological philosophy of technology perspective has to offer to the field of design methodology. If this French perspective is combined with contemporary speculative pragmatism a generative design methodology emerges offering novelty in what is sensed as important in a design situation. Within this perspective, drawing upon the late French philosopher Gilbert Simondon, technical objects have their own mode of existence and their own trajectory of development apart from human intention.Designers working with such a generative design methodology follow the constitutive value of openness and attune to the regulative value of techno-aesthetic judgments. By way of a 'vignette+', a paradigmatic example from a real case, a more encompassing argument is made towards design situations where a sophisticated machine is 'inserted' into a domestic setting.The example taken is the use of an artificial kidney machine in a domestic setting and the development of a novel machine with a design team. Four aspects were sensed as important in the unfolding design situation and directions for further research are discussed.

Generative design and analysis of a double-wishbone suspension assembly: a methodology for developing constraint oriented solutions for optimum material distribution

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Aayush Bhat ◽  
Vyom Gupta ◽  
Savitoj Singh Aulakh ◽  
Renold S. Elsen
Keyword(s):  
Design Methodology ◽  
Manufacturing Industry ◽  
Optimization Technique ◽  
Design Solution ◽  
Material Distribution ◽  
Generative Design ◽  
Trade Off ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Life Study ◽  
Optimal Material

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to implement the generative design as an optimization technique to achieve a reasonable trade-off between weight and reliability for the control arm plate of a double-wishbone suspension assembly of a Formula Student race car. Design/methodology/approach The generative design methodology is applied to develop a low-weight design alternative to a standard control arm plate design. A static stress simulation and a fatigue life study are developed to assess the response of the plate against the loading criteria and to ensure that the plate sustains the theoretically determined number of loading cycles. Findings The approach implemented provides a justifiable outcome for a weight-factor of safety trade-off. In addition to optimal material distribution, the generative design methodology provides several design outcomes, for different materials and fabrication techniques. This enables the selection of the best possible outcome for several structural requirements. Research limitations/implications This technique can be used for applications with pre-defined constraints, such as packaging and loading, usually observed in load-bearing components developed in the automotive and aerospace sectors of the manufacturing industry. Practical implications Using this technique can provide an alternative design solution to long periods spent in the design phase, because of its ability to generate several possible outcomes in just a fraction of time. Originality/value The proposed research provides a means of developing optimized designs and provides techniques in which the design developed and chosen can be structurally analyzed.

Mechanology, Mindstorms, and the Genesis of Robots

2018 ◽  
pp. 120-137 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris Chesher
Keyword(s):  
Embodied Cognition ◽  
Philosophy Of Technology ◽  
Educational Robotics ◽  
Learning Mathematics ◽  
Robotics Concepts ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
Gilbert Simondon

This chapter examines the emergence of educational robotics, drawing on the philosophy of technology of Gilbert Simondon. In the 1950s, Simondon argued that the dominant understandings of technology are personified in the popular imaginings of the robot. These attitudes are polarised between simple instrumentalism, and dystopian anxiety about technology overcoming humankind. To improve the conceptualisation of technics he took an approach called mechanology, developing a suite of concepts that grasped technology in new ways: technological genesis; the margin of indetermination; lineages of abstract and concrete technologies; and the associated milieu. These concepts are useful in understanding the tradition of educational robotics starting in the 1970s, with Seymour Papert's ‘turtle' robot serving as a resource for learning mathematics. Since the 1980s, LEGO's Mindstorms kits have introduced learners and consumers to robotics concepts. Since the 1990s, theorists of embodied cognition in the 2000s have made use of Mindstorms to draw attention to the limits of symbolic intelligence.

scholarly journals What is accounting? The “being” and “be-ings” of the accounting phenomenon and its critical appreciation

2019 ◽  
Vol 32 (5) ◽  
pp. 1414-1436 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nihel Chabrak ◽  
Jim Haslam ◽  
Helen Oakes
Keyword(s):  
Design Methodology ◽  
Interpretive Research ◽  
Critical Perspective ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Accounting Research ◽  
Critical Orientation ◽  
Perspective Drawing ◽  
The Usa

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to reflect a critical perspective drawing from phenomenology, especially informed by a reading of Heidegger, to enhance and extend appreciation of the need to question accounting’s meaning or delineation and how research might be undertaken into the accounting phenomenon and related areas. Design/methodology/approach To illustrate and clarify argumentation in terms of accounting mobilization and the domain of accounting research, the mainstream and strongly positivistic accounting perspective adopted in the USA is critically assessed. At the same time, the authors elaborate how much of interpretive research (including much of that labeled critical) is also lacking in terms of the perspective articulated here. Findings The paper stresses the case for questioning the taken-for-granted and conventional. It promotes reflexivity, cautious pragmatism, attentiveness to the value of the existing, responsibility to difference and otherness and openness to new possibilities as part of a deeper critical orientation. Originality/value The paper draws from phenomenology, especially in Heideggerian terms to open-up new conversational domain to debate accounting.

Narrating the narrative turn in narrative accounting research:

2018 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian A. Rutherford
Keyword(s):  
Design Methodology ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
Research Activity ◽  
Actor Network ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Accounting Research ◽  
Research Context ◽  
Perspective Drawing ◽  
Substantial Change

Purpose This paper aims to analyse the nature and extent of convergence within the literature of the narrative turn in narrative accounting research. Design/methodology/approach The paper offers an actor–network–theoretic perspective drawing on Latour’s theory of citation and Shwed and Bearman’s development of that theory to analyse patterns of convergence. Findings The paper finds that across the exemplars of narrative turn research examined, there is only a limited level of epistemic engagement so that exemplars achieve their status without undergoing trials of strength. Research limitations/implications The paper argues that the resources of the relevant academic community are spread so thinly that each seam – each research question, methodology or method and research context – is mined by no more than a small handful of researchers unable to generate a meaningful volume of contestation. Steps are suggested to better focus research activity. Originality/value The use of Latour’s theory of citation to analyse patterns of convergence in accounting research is innovative. The paper proposes a substantial change in the community’s approach to narrative turn research on accounting narratives.

Design and implementation of e-learning – the case of weapons of mass destruction defence training

2017 ◽  
Vol 105 (4) ◽  
pp. 53-65
Author(s):  
Paweł Maciejewski
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Weapons Of Mass Destruction ◽  
Design Team ◽  
Mass Destruction ◽  
Design And Implementation ◽  
Universal Principles ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Group Members ◽  
Principles Of Design

The article discusses the universal principles of design methodology for e-learning courses, which were used during the development of materials concerning defence against weapons of mass destruction. According to the author, these assumptions may be modified depending on the broadly defined organisational conditions. In two case studies the author shows the possible configurations of the design team course and stages of design. Analysis of literature and the case studies indicates that optimisation of design and implementation works should be followed by competence analysis of project group members.

In Defense of Engineering Sciences

2011 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mieke Boon ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Design ◽  
Current Literature ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Philosophy Of Technology ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Scientific Practices ◽  
Engineering Sciences ◽  
The Cost ◽  
The Relationship

This article presents an overview of discussions in the philosophy of technology on epistemological relations between science and technology, illustrating that often several mutually entangled issues are at stake. The focus is on conceptual and ideological issues concerning the relationship between scientific and technological knowledge. It argues that a widely accepted hierarchy between science and technology, which echoes classic conceptions of epistêmê and technê, engendered the need of emancipating technology from science, thus shifting focus to epistemic aspects of engineering design and design methodology at the cost of in-depth philosophical analysis of the role of scientific research in the engineering sciences. Consequently, the majority of current literature on this topic in the philosophy of technology presents technology as almost completely divided from and independent of science, thereby losing sight of the epistemic relations between contemporary scientific practices and technology.

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