A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
AbstractIn solving design problems designers use a combination of analytical serial thinking and holistic synthetic thinking. This can be seen both in how the process is described by design theorists and in the practical activities which designers undertake. In common with most other forms of design, the industrial design work which will be described is mainly concerned with defining the physical form of objects and this requires visual thinking. The whole process involves modelling the design ideas using various techniques, and for the visual thinking they are externalized in the form of drawings and three-dimensional representations. Using drawings is the quickest and most fluid modelling technique, and such drawings will often reveal the combination of analytical and holistic processes which the designer employs. Project work from Coventry's Industrial Design Transportation course is used to demonstrate such strategies.
AbstractIn solving design problems designers use a combination of analytical serial thinking and holistic synthetic thinking. This can be seen both in how the process is described by design theorists and in the practical activities which designers undertake. In common with most other forms of design, the industrial design work which will be described is mainly concerned with defining the physical form of objects and this requires visual thinking. The whole process involves modelling the design ideas using various techniques, and for the visual thinking they are externalized in the form of drawings and three-dimensional representations. Using drawings is the quickest and most fluid modelling technique, and such drawings will often reveal the combination of analytical and holistic processes which the designer employs. Project work from Coventry's Industrial Design Transportation course is used to demonstrate such strategies.
Thinking styles and modelling systems
Tovey, Michael (author)
Design Studies ; 7 ; 20-30
1986-01-01
11 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
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