The discipline of Natural Design

HALL, Jon G and RAPANOTTI, Lucia (2009). The discipline of Natural Design. In: Undisciplined! Design Research Society Conference 2008, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, UK, 16-19 July 2008.

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Abstract

If we define design work as those cognitive and practical things to which designers give their valuable effort, then our Natural Design framework allows the recording and replaying of design work. Natural Design provides a meta-structural framework that has developed through our observations of engineering design in safety and mission critical industries, such as aircraft design. Our previous work has produced parametrisable models of design work for software intensive systems, and we now look to make an initial assessment of our natural design framework for its fit to the more creative design practices. In this paper we briefly sketch the framework and subsequently attempt to locate ‘creativity’ in it. We find that, although there are good strong hooks for what the designer does, we are forced to find a role for the community of the designer in the creative process in our framework, something that was only implicit in our previous work.

Keywords:
Natural design; Engineering design; Creativity

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (-)
Depositing User:	Ann Betterton
Date Deposited:	09 Jul 2009
Last Modified:	18 Mar 2021 13:21
URI:	https://shura.shu.ac.uk/id/eprint/460

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