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Understanding Collaborative Design Through Activity Theory
Complex projects are often designed and developed through teamwork of different disciplines, which allows for the consideration of multiple perspectives and knowledge construction across specific expertise. Although this type of collaborative design has been granted many benefits, it is also known that multidisciplinary teams can encounter difficulties when they go about sharing information and knowledge. With the intent of gaining clearer understanding of teams’ interactions to reach the project outcome, we propose to use Activity Theory as a framework to analyse a team’s collaborative evolution. This article seeks to demonstrate the value of Activity Theory to explain and interpret a design situation. The findings confirm its strong potential to gain in-depth understanding of a team’s progression in an authentic design project. Activity Theory seems to provide a robust method to accurately disentangle the collaborative dynamics. Therefore, we seek to demonstrate the promising advantages of this framework as a next methodology for design research.
Understanding Collaborative Design Through Activity Theory
Complex projects are often designed and developed through teamwork of different disciplines, which allows for the consideration of multiple perspectives and knowledge construction across specific expertise. Although this type of collaborative design has been granted many benefits, it is also known that multidisciplinary teams can encounter difficulties when they go about sharing information and knowledge. With the intent of gaining clearer understanding of teams’ interactions to reach the project outcome, we propose to use Activity Theory as a framework to analyse a team’s collaborative evolution. This article seeks to demonstrate the value of Activity Theory to explain and interpret a design situation. The findings confirm its strong potential to gain in-depth understanding of a team’s progression in an authentic design project. Activity Theory seems to provide a robust method to accurately disentangle the collaborative dynamics. Therefore, we seek to demonstrate the promising advantages of this framework as a next methodology for design research.
Understanding Collaborative Design Through Activity Theory
Zahedi, Mithra (author) / Tessier, Virginie (author) / Hawey, Dave (author)
The Design Journal ; 20 ; S4611-S4620
2017-07-28
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
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