scholarly journals Enhancement of Critical and Analytical Thinking in the Context of Interior Design History

IDEA JOURNAL ◽  
2010 ◽  
pp. 116-127
Author(s):  
Kyuho Ahn ◽  
Mihyun Kang
Keyword(s):  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Interior Design ◽  
Skill Learning ◽  
Design History ◽  
Focus Group Study ◽  
Design Problems ◽  
Intellectual Engagement ◽  
Analytical Thinking ◽  
Current Design ◽  
Actual Design

Through this study, a pedagogical case study was developed, implemented, and disseminated in which students applied interior design historical contexts to a studio project based on Beecher’s design history education framework suggesting that design history should be taught to engage students in critical and analytical thinking and to integrate the knowledge gained into current design applications.1 Students were asked to develop an exhibition design installation(Application) as a team project based on the team’s analysis of a design topic or artifact of its choice (Analytical/Critical Thinking) from the existing 1885-1925 exhibition (Accessibility). A focus group study was conducted to investigate students’ perceptions regarding design history while they worked on this project and then to investigate learning outcomes once they had completed it. Intellectual engagement and learning progress were observed in the students; these may have resulted from the integrated application of the material within an actual design problem. Three major learning outcomes: engagement, critical/analytical thinking, and understanding of design history in multidimensional contexts, were observed. Additionally, students experienced positive aspects of design skill learning due to the actual installation of the project. This study provided a comprehensive view of how the students responded to interior design history in their design problems.

scholarly journals Students as Researchers, Collaborators, & End-users: Informing Campus Design

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy M. Huber ◽  
Lisa K. Waxman ◽  
Stephanie Clemons
Keyword(s):  
Research Methods ◽  
Interior Design ◽  
Design Problem ◽  
Original Research ◽  
Design Problems ◽  
Campus Design ◽  
Job Opportunities ◽  
Apply Research ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Integration Strategies

Students in undergraduate design programs often lack opportunity to conduct original research and apply their findings to project solutions. Consequently, they struggle with identifying and framing a design problem, understanding the importance of research-based design, and how to appropriately apply research findings to the needs and desires of project stakeholders. In interior design, this unawareness can lead to design solutions that appeal to the eye, but lack defensible rationale and often do not solve the design problem, or meet user needs. Exposure to research methods and collaborations with practitioners may change how students approach design problems by fostering an empathetic understanding of the human experience.This design case describes a project design at two universities where 72 sophomore and junior students collaborated with furniture manufacturer Herman Miller, Inc. to generate original research before applying their findings to the redesign of informal learning spaces in their campus libraries. Constructivist Learning and Backward Instructional Design, guided the design of the project. The result of this engagement, exposed students to research methods and research integration strategies, who outwardly demonstrated more confidence in making decisions during the design process. While the long-term implications from this type of engagement are not yet evident, encouraging students to ground their design ideas on evidence they have gathered, and their analysis of it, may not only shape their future decision making, but potentially lead to more appropriate client solutions and provide students with coveted job opportunities in positions where evidence-based design is highly valued.

scholarly journals Mycelium-Based Composites in Art, Architecture, and Interior Design: A Review

Polymers ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 145
Author(s):  
Maciej Sydor ◽  
Agata Bonenberg ◽  
Beata Doczekalska ◽  
Grzegorz Cofta
Keyword(s):  
Internal Structure ◽  
Interior Design ◽  
Load Capacity ◽  
Feasibility Studies ◽  
Scientific Publications ◽  
Everyday Objects ◽  
Artistic Value ◽  
Sources Of Knowledge ◽  
Current Design ◽  
Patent Documents

Mycelium-based composites (MBCs) have attracted growing attention due to their role in the development of eco-design methods. We concurrently analysed scientific publications, patent documents, and results of our own feasibility studies to identify the current design issues and technologies used. A literature inquiry in scientific and patent databases (WoS, Scopus, The Lens, Google Patents) pointed to 92 scientific publications and 212 patent documents. As a part of our own technological experiments, we have created several prototype products used in architectural interior design. Following the synthesis, these sources of knowledge can be concluded: 1. MBCs are inexpensive in production, ecological, and offer a high artistic value. Their weaknesses are insufficient load capacity, unfavourable water affinity, and unknown reliability. 2. The scientific literature shows that the material parameters of MBCs can be adjusted to certain needs, but there are almost infinite combinations: properties of the input biomaterials, characteristics of the fungi species, and possible parameters during the growth and subsequent processing of the MBCs. 3. The patent documents show the need for development: an effective method to increase the density and the search for technologies to obtain a more homogeneous internal structure of the composite material. 4. Our own experiments with the production of various everyday objects indicate that some disadvantages of MBCs can be considered advantages. Such an unexpected advantage is the interesting surface texture resulting from the natural inhomogeneity of the internal structure of MBCs, which can be controlled to some extent.

Optimal Design Methodology of Point-to-Point Servo Systems for Minimization of Energy Consumption

1992 ◽  
Vol 206 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-43
Author(s):  
S W Kim ◽  
J S Park
Keyword(s):  
Design Methodology ◽  
Design Problems ◽  
Servo Systems ◽  
Speed Reduction ◽  
Point Motion ◽  
Actual Design ◽  
Profile Optimization ◽  
Point To Point ◽  
Selection Of

An optimum design methodology is presented for point-to-point motion control servo systems in which d.c. permanent magnetic motors are used as the main actuators. Emphasis is focused on establishing a series of comprehensive decision-making practices in dealing with three major design subjects: determination of the velocity profile, optimization of the speed reduction ratio, and selection of the motor. Finally, a practical design example is discussed to illustrate how the suggested design methodology may be applied to actual design problems.

Modality and representation in analogy

2008 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 85-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
J.S. Linsey ◽  
K.L. Wood ◽  
A.B. Markman
Keyword(s):  
Prior Knowledge ◽  
English Language ◽  
Functional Model ◽  
Cognitive Mechanisms ◽  
Support Design ◽  
Design Problems ◽  
Functional Models ◽  
Current Design ◽  
Design By Analogy ◽  
General Semantic

AbstractDesign by analogy is a powerful part of the design process across the wide variety of modalities used by designers such as linguistic descriptions, sketches, and diagrams. We need tools to support people's ability to find and use analogies. A deeper understanding of the cognitive mechanisms underlying design and analogy is a crucial step in developing these tools. This paper presents an experiment that explores the effects of representation within the modality of sketching, the effects of functional models, and the retrieval and use of analogies. We find that the level of abstraction for the representation of prior knowledge and the representation of a current design problem both affect people's ability to retrieve and use analogous solutions. A general semantic description in memory facilitates retrieval of that prior knowledge. The ability to find and use an analogy is also facilitated by having an appropriate functional model of the problem. These studies result in a number of important implications for the development of tools to support design by analogy. Foremost among these implications is the ability to provide multiple representations of design problems by which designers may reason across, where the verb construct in the English language is a preferred mode for these representations.

Development of the Guideline on Inelastic Analysis for Design

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yoshihiko Tanaka ◽  
Hiroshi Shibamoto ◽  
Kazuhiko Inoue ◽  
Naoto Kasahara ◽  
Masanori Ando ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Guideline Development ◽  
Design Method ◽  
Equivalent Strain ◽  
Actual Behavior ◽  
Design Problems ◽  
Inelastic Analysis ◽  
General Rules ◽  
Creep Fatigue ◽  
Actual Design ◽  
Analysis Quality

The guideline on inelastic analysis for design, one of the key items of Fast Reactor Design Standard (FDS), is being developed. The basic policies of this guideline are as follows: (a) to emphasis conservative analysis output rather than nominal value representing actual behavior, (b) to clarify the applicable area for assurance of conservative results. With such concepts, it would be possible that the guideline provides useful explanations on the manner of analysis and estimation in the form of concrete examples of design as well as general rules (somehow vague). As the first step of the guideline development, the following five issues to be solved were extracted: 1) applicable area, 2) selection of constitutive equation, 3) modeling method of the load history, 4) ratchet strain and creep fatigue damage evaluation methods by inelastic analysis and 5) example design problems to check users’ analysis quality and to complement the general rules. In parallel, inelastic analyses with the promising constitutive equations were applied by way of trial to obtain rough presumption on their effects on structural design of the components. As a result, all inelastic analyses provided smaller cumulative strains and equivalent strain ranges than the existing design method based on elastic analysis, suggesting advantage of introducing them into actual design.

Internal Relation between Design and Culture - Chinese Cultural Characteristics Reflected in Interior Design

2013 ◽  
Vol 368-370 ◽  
pp. 649-652
Author(s):  
Tao Li ◽  
Jing Zhou
Keyword(s):  
Interior Design ◽  
Chinese Culture ◽  
Traditional Culture ◽  
World Market ◽  
Urgent Problem ◽  
Native Culture ◽  
Internal Relation ◽  
The World ◽  
Traditional Chinese Culture ◽  
Current Design

With the increasingly development and practice of interior design in China, designers are facing an important problem which requires them to have a good consideration,that is the culture reflected in their design is borderless.The urgent problem which comes to us now is try to reflect the inheritance and innovation of native culture in the interior design in a right way. Designers need to think better of returning to traditional Chinese culture and have it carried forward.The traditional culture and the taste of traditional aesthetic concept are well worth learning by designers, which is the foundation of the design. We should think deeply of current design behavior and face the reasonable direction of the development squarely, so as to make Chinese interior design more competitive in the world market.

Interior Design History: Some Reflections

2013 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. ix-xxi ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Hinchman
Keyword(s):  
Interior Design ◽  
Design History
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