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Designerly ways of knowing / Nigel Cross

By:

Cross, Nigel 1942-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York Springer 2006Edition: 1. edDescription: xiii, 114 s. illISBN:

9781849965736 (2010)
978-1-84628-300-0 (alk. paper)
1-84628-300-0 (alk. paper)

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745.2 23/swe

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Contents:

Designerly Ways of Knowing -- The Nature and Nurture of Design Ability -- Natural and Artificial Intelligence in Design -- Creative Cognition in Design I: The Creative Leap -- Creative Cognition in Design II: Creative Strategies -- Understanding Design Cognition -- Design as a Discipline

Summary: The concept - designerly ways of knowing - emerged in the late 1970s alongside new approaches in design education. Professor Nigel Cross, a respected design researcher, first articulated this idea in his paper 'Designerly Ways of Knowing' published in 1982. This book is a unique insight into expanding discipline area with important implications for design research, education and practice. This book traces the development of a research interest in articulating and understanding the idea that designers have and use 'designerly' ways of knowing and thinking. The following topics are covered: nature and nurture of design ability; creative cognition in design; natural intelligence of design; design discipline versus design science; and, expertise in design. As a timeline of scholarship and research and a resource for understanding how designers think and work, this book will interest researchers, teachers and students of industrial and product design; design practitioners, and design managers

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book (loan)	Campus Karlskrona	740	Available		85001945487

Även med tryckår : 2010 (ISBN 9781849965736)

The concept - designerly ways of knowing - emerged in the late 1970s alongside new approaches in design education. Professor Nigel Cross, a respected design researcher, first articulated this idea in his paper 'Designerly Ways of Knowing' published in 1982. This book is a unique insight into expanding discipline area with important implications for design research, education and practice. This book traces the development of a research interest in articulating and understanding the idea that designers have and use 'designerly' ways of knowing and thinking. The following topics are covered: nature and nurture of design ability; creative cognition in design; natural intelligence of design; design discipline versus design science; and, expertise in design. As a timeline of scholarship and research and a resource for understanding how designers think and work, this book will interest researchers, teachers and students of industrial and product design; design practitioners, and design managers