Design Style: Changing Dominant Design Practice

Design Issues ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 25-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Todd Cherkasky
Keyword(s):  
Design Practice ◽  
Dominant Design ◽  
Design Style

Queer-Sensible Designing

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Silas DENZ ◽  
Wouter EGGINK
Keyword(s):  
Queer Theory ◽  
Design Process ◽  
Industrial Design ◽  
Gender Norms ◽  
Design Practice ◽  
Gender Scripts ◽  
Femininity And Masculinity ◽  
Design Workshop ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Design Style

Conventional design practices regard gender as a given precondition defined by femininity and masculinity. To shift these strategies to include non-heteronormative or queer users, queer theory served as a source of inspiration as well as user sensitive design techniques. As a result, a co-design workshop was developed and executed. Participants supported claims that gender scripts in designed artefacts uphold gender norms. The practice did not specify a definition of a queer design style. However, the co-design practice opened up the design process to non-normative gender scripts by unmasking binary gender dichotomies in industrial design.

A microcomputer-based analysis and design of air-supported cylindrical membranes

1992 ◽  
Vol 19 (6) ◽  
pp. 1032-1040 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Turkkan ◽  
N. K. Srivastava
Keyword(s):  
Membrane Structure ◽  
Reliable Method ◽  
Approximate Analysis ◽  
Design Practice ◽  
Analysis And Design ◽  
Supported Membrane ◽  
Dominant Design ◽  
Current Design ◽  
Design Loads ◽  
Analysis Design

An approximate, simple, and reliable method of analysis is presented for an air-supported cylindrical membrane structure. Furthermore, to use this method of analysis for design purposes, a brief description of dominant design loads and its formulation as applied to air-supported structures is also given based on design practice and experiments. Incorporating both the method of analysis and the described design loads, a microcomputer-based program, coded in MS Quickbasic, has been developed, which is simple to use and completely user friendly.First, the reliability of the approach is established by comparing it with available published studies on circular cylindrical air-supported structures, based on rigorous modelling and analysis. Then, several illustrative examples are presented for different heights and spans under various loading combinations as per current design practice. Key words: air-supported membrane, cylindrical, finite displacement, microcomputer based, approximate, analysis, design.

scholarly journals Between Dissent and Consensus, Resistance and Counter-Resistance: Design Practice as a Common Project-Process for Plural Possibilities of Being and Becoming

2021 ◽  
pp. 157-181
Author(s):  
Chiara Del Gaudio ◽  
Samara Tanaka ◽  
Douglas Onzi Pastori
Keyword(s):  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Design Approach ◽  
Design Practice ◽  
Design Processes ◽  
Design Practices ◽  
Dominant Design ◽  
Forms Of Life ◽  
Normative Models ◽  
Design Experience ◽  
Being And Becoming

This paper is a contribution to the discussion on the ethical and political limitations of institutionalised, dominant design practices and on the need to rethink the ways in which they operate. It points out that institutionalised design processes act as a dispositive of power that not only capture and colonise forms of life, but that also shape territories, bodies and languages through normative models that are exogenous to them. This discussion is crucial when thinking about the role that design has played in nurturing current crises. This paper is an inquiry into the possibility of design practice that is not institutionalised either by sovereign designing designers or by subordinated designed users, but that constitutes itself according to dynamics where design emerges as a common project-process of creative possibilities of being and becoming. Crucial aspects for a non-institutionalised design practice are identified through the analysis of a design experience with communities in Rio de Janeiro favelas. This paper shows how this design experience is based on a design approach that, through discursive structures, dynamically supports and is informed by dissent and consensus, and by the interplay between resistance and counter-resistance.

scholarly journals Principles of Somatic Movement Education for Architectural Design

Dimensions ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-60
Author(s):  
Wiktor Skrzypczak
Keyword(s):  
Architectural Design ◽  
A Priori ◽  
Design Practice ◽  
Movement Education ◽  
Architectural Practice ◽  
Dominant Design ◽  
Architectural Structures ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Professional Contexts ◽  
Personal Feeling

Abstract An architect trying to predict the spatial effect of their design on its inhabitants often faces a dilemma. Their professional experience and personal feeling allows them to intuit its effect. Such intuition, however, might lack legitimacy in the dominant design practice. For over a century, the question of the felt space in architecture has been a topic of theoretical discussion, which led to the insight that the answer might lay not so much in studying the architectural structures, but rather in studying the bodies that inhabit them. And still the dominant architectural practice follows the outdated dualistic (mis-)understanding of the felt space. Another historical development took place in dance. Here, since the 1960s,the traditionally formalistic and objectifying understanding of dance has been strongly influenced by techniques of bodily sensitization, stemming from the field of somatics. In themselves rather diverse, these techniques have been institutionally delineated through the principles of somatic movement education. One of their characteristics is that somatic techniques are constantly re-emerging - not from a priori knowledge but from the study of one’s own body and its interactions with the environment. This article envisages how such principles might be applied to architectural design practice and give rise to new embodied design practices - which might foster architects’ sensory expertise and thus legitimize the felt knowledge in professional contexts.

Discourse Mapping

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Joanna BOEHNERT
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Politics ◽  
Technology Policy ◽  
Policy Research ◽  
Mapping Method ◽  
Science And Technology Policy ◽  
Design Practice ◽  
Analysis Method ◽  
Environmental Sciences ◽  
University Of Colorado ◽  
The University

This workshop will create a space for discussion on environmental politics and its impact on design for sustainable transitions. It will help participants identify different sustainability discourses; create a space for reflection on how these discourses influence design practice; and consider the environmental and social implications of different discourses. The workshop will do this work by encouraging knowledge sharing, reflection and interpretative mapping in a participatory space where individuals will create their own discourse maps. This work is informed by my research “Mapping Climate Communication” conducted at the Centre for Science and Technology Policy Research (CSTPR) in the Cooperative Institute for Environmental Sciences (CIRES), the University of Colorado, Boulder. With this research project I developed a discourse mapping method based on the discourse analysis method of political scientists and sustainability scholars. Using my own work as an example, I will facilitate a process that will enable participants to create new discourse maps reflecting their own ideas and agendas.

Design Capability for Science-based Innovation

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
ROTHKÖTTER Stefanie ◽  
Craig C. GARNER ◽  
Sándor VAJNA
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Scientific Discovery ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Research Interest ◽  
Design Practice ◽  
Design Technology ◽  
Innovation Potential ◽  
Design Integration ◽  
Cultural Constraints

In light of a growing research interest in the innovation potential that lies at the inter­section of design, technology, and science, this paper offers a literature review of design initiatives centered on scientific discovery and invention. The focus of this paper is on evidence of design capabilities in the academic research environment. The results are structured along the Four Orders of Design, with examples of design-in-science initiatives ranging from (1) the design of scientific figures and (2) laboratory devices using new technology to (3) interactions in design workshops for scientists and (4) inter­disciplinary design labs. While design capabilities have appeared in all four orders of design, there are barriers and cultural constraints that have to be taken into account for working at or researching these creative intersections. Modes of design integration and potentially necessary adaptations of design practice are therefore also highlighted.

Personal, political, professional

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Niki WALLACE
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
The Political ◽  
Reflective Practices ◽  
Design Practice ◽  
Participant Engagement ◽  
Auto Ethnography

It is widely agreed that in order to contribute to transitions towards sustainability, both practitioners and design itself must also transition. This paper presents findings from the first two years of transition in my Australian-based design practice. The paper explores what this transition has required of me personally, politically, and professionally, and draws on cases from my PhD. The PhD and paper are both part of an analytic auto-ethnography of my practice’s transition from ‘making greener things’ towards design for transitions. The projects discussed use ethnography, action research and reflective practices in their temporal approaches. This paper explores how slower methods such as transition design and autonomous design can extend the political reach of a design practice and discusses sacrifice and the financial stabilisation that comes from enveloping old practices within the new. The analysis presented here also reflects on my experiences practicing design for transitions and on data collected through participant engagement.

‘Webbed with Golden Lines’: Saul Bellow's Romanticism

Romanticism ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-67
Author(s):  
Mark Sandy
Keyword(s):  
Culturally Diverse ◽  
Jewish American ◽  
British Romanticism ◽  
Saul Bellow ◽  
American School ◽  
Dominant Design ◽  
Post War ◽  
The Web

Attaining prominence in the post-war era, Saul Bellow is one of the most widely read and intellectually eclectic novelists of the Jewish American School.1 Bellow's frequent references to Romanticism form a dominant design within his culturally diverse fiction.2 Taken from Bellow's Herzog, my title indicates the two levels on which Bellow's Romantic allusions operate. At one level, this ‘webbed’ pattern of ‘golden lines’ suggests how Bellow interlaces his own prose with the poetry and philosophy of British Romanticism to govern readers' responses to his portrayal of epiphanies. On another, Herzog's moment of inter-connected vision signals Bellow's investment in a Coleridgean and Wordsworthian imagination that reveals the all-pervasive spirit of the ‘[o]ne Life within us and abroad’3. This metaphysical dimension to Bellow's web of ‘golden lines’ finds a further affinity with Shelley's later notion of the ‘web of being’.4

Predicting the Effect of Tire Tread Pattern Design on Thick Film Wet Traction

1977 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 6-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. L. Browne
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Data ◽  
Network Design ◽  
Thick Film ◽  
Digital Computer ◽  
Analytical Tool ◽  
Design Practice ◽  
Pattern Design ◽  
Performance Results ◽  
Good Agreement

Abstract An analytical tool is presented for the prediction of the effects of changes in tread pattern design on thick film wet traction performance. Results are reported for studies in which the analysis, implemented on a digital computer, was used to determine the effect of different tread geometry features, among these being the number, width, and lateral spacing of longitudinal grooves and the angle of zigzags in longitudinal grooves, on thick film wet traction. These results are shown to be in good agreement with experimental data appearing in the literature and are used to formulate guidelines for tread groove network design practice.

Analysis of design practice of mining enterprises in conditions of uncertainty of initial information

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 3-7
Author(s):  
S.O. Varygin ◽  
◽  
V.V. Agafonov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Design Practice ◽  
Initial Information
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