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Consideration of Material Behaviour in the Creative Design Process: A Perspective from Structural Engineering
Hay, T.J; Lee, D; Larsen, O.P // 2012
The purpose of this paper is to examine how material choices are made in practice by structural engineers and by implication how material behaviour is understood. The research uses documents from ...
Considerations about Creative Environments for Students
Lloveras, J. // 2012
A new idea is based on old ideas and knowledge produced by other minds, but an idea is born in the mind of one person, even when working with others. This article analyses several factors ...
Courses in Creative Tools and Models of Design Thinking
Robertson, E. // 2012
This paper is based on the outcomes of writing, refining and teaching online courses in creative and design thinking to staff in several countries who work for Arup; and, over a seven year period to ...
Creating an Innovative Attitude at Work
Eriksen, Kaare; Tollestrup, Christian // 2012
This paper focuses on the introduction of creative methods and approaches to the staff in a major public service institution in collaboration with design researchers and design students. The project ...
Creating Novel Product Form based on Formal Aesthetics - A Method for Advanced Form Design Education
Rahe, Ulrike; Babapour, Maral; , Bj // 2012
One of the most distinct aspects of creativity in design is an aesthetic sense, an indubitable determinant of product success in the market. It is therefore of great importance to nurture creativity ...
Creative Animation Design for Inverse Kinematics Motions of Shadowgraphs Shadow Puppets in Taiwan
Liao, G. // 2012
Shadowgraph is the featured traditional folk culture and art in Taiwan. The operators play the roles of Shadow Puppets with the puppets‘ performance according to the stories and the plots. This study ...
Creative Design Opportunities into Knowledge Based Engineering Process
Boxberger, J.; Lebouteiller, M.; Schlegeld, D.; Lebaaln, N.; Gomes, S. // 2012
High competition and low manufacturing costs in emerging countries, forces European firms to improve quality, cost and delivery. In this context, research and development departments have to look ...
Creative Processes in Groups – Relating Communication, Cognitive Processes and Solution Ideas
Farzaneh, H. H.; Kaiser, M. K.; Lindemann, U. // 2012
In technical product development group creativity sessions are performed to develop new and unobvious solution ideas. Different factors, e.g. creativity methods, influence the creative process and ...
Creative Space in Design Education: A Typology of Spatial Functions
Thoring, Katja; Luippold, Carmen; Mueller, Roland M. // 2012
This article analyses the role of the space for facilitating creativity, especially in the context of creative education. Based on a qualitative user research with cultural probes, five different ...
Creativity and Innovtion: Developing Design Thinking and Visual Communication Skills
Trowsdale, D. B.; McKay, A.; Giard, J. // 2012
A common feature of today‘s societal challenges lies in their complexity. Society‘s ability to address these problems depends on education programmes developing in their graduates competencies and ...
Creativity Comparisons between Japanese and European at the Concept Creation Stage
Gentner, A.; Bouchard, C.; Esquivel, D.; Oprea, G. // 2012
The study presented in this article aims to measure the impact of sensory, cognitive and affective modalities and the influence of designer‘s culture on the association of ideas phase during creative ...
Creativity in Car Design – The Behaviour at the Edges
Dowlen, C. // 2012
The paper is developed from a longer evaluation of the history of car design. This larger evaluation used statistical processes for investigating the direction of history. Rather than looking at the ...
Creativity in craft led design: the Tools are the rules
MacLachlan, L.; Earl, C.; Eckert, C. // 2012
The co-evolution of new forms with specified tools characterises craft led design. Formal views of design and creativity may be characterised by the manipulation of the rules of a knowledge domain. ...
Creativity in Design Education: The Effect of C-K’S C-constructs
Zeiler, Wim // 2012
The design of buildings is complex and requires the support of multi-disciplinary design teams. Therefore a supportive design approach has been developed: Integral Design. Integral Design combines an ...
Creativity in the First Year of an MEng Degree
Valentine, Rod // 2012
Creativity is a requirement of the UK Standard for Professional Engineering Competence (UK-SPEC) stipulating within its specific learning outcomes that accredited degree courses deliver creativity. ...
Creativity on demand
Linse, Charlotta; Jerbrant, Anna; Engwall, Mats // 2012
The purpose of this paper is to analyze how designers perceive that managerial structures affect creativity and efficiency in the design work. The findings indicate that the designers think their ...
Creativity, Surprise & Design: An Introduction and Investigation
Brown, D. C. // 2012
This paper weaves together some of the basic ideas about surprise, and creativity, in the context of design. Situations in which design surprise might occur are identified, and a few are discussed in ...
Defining Creativity as Problem Solving in Graphic Design Education
Alhajri, S. A. // 2012
yet it is difficult to find a definition of creativity that suits all fields. This paper argues that creativity in relation to graphic design education can be defined as problem solving. This paper ...
Design and Control of a Prosthetic Knee for Transfemoral Amputation
Taga, Ö.; Yaman, K.; Ye, K.K. // 2012
In this study, transfemoral amputations and prosthetic knees evolved for transfemoral amputations are investigated and the electronic control unit of prosthetic knees is designed. The first stages of ...
Design and Emotions: A Design Method Based on Neurosciences
Maiocchi, M.; Pillan, M. // 2012
Many neuroscience studies put in evidence that emotions are physical conditions related to the effects of different neurotransmitters on many body organs, as a result of stimuli received by the ...
Design Cognition Differences When Using Structured and Unstructured Concept Generation Creativity Techniques
Gero, J. S.; Jiang, H.; Williams, C. B. // 2012
This paper presents the results of measuring and comparing design cognition while using different creativity techniques for concept generation in collaborative engineering design settings. Eleven ...
Design for Sustainable Behaviour in Design Education
Boks, Casper; Zachrisson Daae, Johannes // 2012
This paper reports on how Design for Sustainable Behaviour has been integrated in a design course. Based on a teaching philosophy aiming to provide students with a holistic view on design, and ...
Design Led Innovation
Childs, Peter; Leon, Nicholas; Runcie, Carolyn // 2012
For the last three years a course has been offered to MEng students in their third or fourth year of studies called Design Led Innovation and New Venture Creation. The rationale for offering the ...
Design to Connect: Creative Tools to Design Joining Methods in Products
Bleuzé, T.; Detand, J.; Debaets, P. // 2012
Creativity is the main force behind design and innovation. Joining methods play an important role in product design ...
Boolean Searches
The following examples demonstrate some search strings that use boolean operators:
- design community
Find rows that contain at least one of the two words. - +design +community
Find rows that contain both words. - +design community
Find rows that contain the word “design”, but rank rows higher if they also contain “community”. - +design -community
Find rows that contain the word “design” but not “community”. - +design ~community
Find rows that contain the word “design”, but if the row also contains the word “community”, rate it lower than if row does not. - +design +(>community <decisions)
Find rows that contain the words “design” and “community”, or “design” and “decisions” (in any order), but rank “design community” higher than “design decisions” - design*
Find rows that contain words such as “design”, “designs”, “designing”, or “designer”. - "some words"
Find rows that contain the exact phrase “some words” (for example, rows that contain “some words of wisdom” but not “some noise words”). Note that the " characters that enclose the phrase are operator characters that delimit the phrase. They are not the quotation marks that enclose the search string itself.