A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
Inspiration and fixation: Questions, methods, findings, and challenges
Research into inspiration and fixation has produced a complex web of questions, methods, and findings, making it difficult to know what has already been investigated and learnt, and what to investigate next and how. To address this, we review the literature, focussing on 25 studies that adopt a similar experimental approach. This reveals 14 manipulated variables, relating to properties of the inspiration source and features of the design process. However, whilst these studies follow a similar approach, when scrutinised and compared, they show great variety in the methods used and the results obtained. We discuss this diversity, offering a methodological critique of inspiration and fixation research and providing recommendations for how future studies might be conducted and reported. (Author abstract)
Inspiration and fixation: Questions, methods, findings, and challenges
Research into inspiration and fixation has produced a complex web of questions, methods, and findings, making it difficult to know what has already been investigated and learnt, and what to investigate next and how. To address this, we review the literature, focussing on 25 studies that adopt a similar experimental approach. This reveals 14 manipulated variables, relating to properties of the inspiration source and features of the design process. However, whilst these studies follow a similar approach, when scrutinised and compared, they show great variety in the methods used and the results obtained. We discuss this diversity, offering a methodological critique of inspiration and fixation research and providing recommendations for how future studies might be conducted and reported. (Author abstract)
Inspiration and fixation: Questions, methods, findings, and challenges
Vasconcelos, Luis A (author) / Crilly, Nathan
Design studies ; 42
2016
Article (Journal)
English
Inspiration and fixation: Questions, methods, findings, and challenges
| British Library Online Contents | 2016
Where next for research on fixation, inspiration and creativity in design?
| BASE | 2017
Inspiration Stockholm / Inspiration Stockholm
Online Contents | 2015
| Online Contents | 1998
UB Braunschweig