A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
AbstractAll of the professions are experiencing rapid change in their ideological bases. The design professions also are caught in this flux. The pressures for change can be characterized as a clash between two competing ways of experiencing reality; the one self-centered (in the literal sense), the ther cosmocentric. These competing cosmologies reflect dual psychological tendencies inherent in the structure of consciousness itself. Each has organismic survival value, and each has a significant role to play in the creative process. Each tendency carries its own mode of perception, quite different from its partner, and each offers unique insights into the nature of formal order. This paper describes a new way of structuring group design processes to take advantage of these differences in perception. These processes reveal archetypal formal solutions which otherwise would remain below the threshold of conscious thought. The argument draws upon some early examples in the history of design methods, and is developed in a group design process conceived by the author at the Auckland University School of Architecture in New Zealand. The implicit idea behind this methodology is that group processes are more powerful than individual processes; that they are capable of rendering deeper, more profound solutions, but that they require a radically different approach to criticism and evaluation.
AbstractAll of the professions are experiencing rapid change in their ideological bases. The design professions also are caught in this flux. The pressures for change can be characterized as a clash between two competing ways of experiencing reality; the one self-centered (in the literal sense), the ther cosmocentric. These competing cosmologies reflect dual psychological tendencies inherent in the structure of consciousness itself. Each has organismic survival value, and each has a significant role to play in the creative process. Each tendency carries its own mode of perception, quite different from its partner, and each offers unique insights into the nature of formal order. This paper describes a new way of structuring group design processes to take advantage of these differences in perception. These processes reveal archetypal formal solutions which otherwise would remain below the threshold of conscious thought. The argument draws upon some early examples in the history of design methods, and is developed in a group design process conceived by the author at the Auckland University School of Architecture in New Zealand. The implicit idea behind this methodology is that group processes are more powerful than individual processes; that they are capable of rendering deeper, more profound solutions, but that they require a radically different approach to criticism and evaluation.
Design archetypes from group processes
Ward, Tony (author)
Design Studies ; 8 ; 157-169
1987-01-01
13 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
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