Design as Dialogue : Encouraging and Facilitating Interdisciplinary Collaboration

ISBN-13: 9783639117134 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 336 str.

Arminda Lopes

Opis

Design is a multidisciplinary and interdisciplinaryactivity; it requires rigour, but also collaboration.Design teams have conversations during the designprocess. They use dialogue as a tool to allow ideasexchange, to find connections, meaning, and interestsin a true collaborative environment. The dialoguethat occurs is the same as that which occurs innormal negotiation in other practices of design. Thisbook offers a new characterization of the designprocess with clear implications for design practice.It presents a detailed theoretical analysis ofauthors definitions of design and stages of thedesign process, and an analysis and review of datagathered from 5 case studies observed within twonetworks: the Leonardo-network and the White RoseNetwork, following Grounded Theory methodology. Themodel proposed, based on dialogue, is a set of goodpractices with a common language, which facilitatesthe multidisciplinary design of artefact and providesindications that can be applied to facilitateeffective design collaborations and to enhance designquality. This book, aimed at design students,researchers in design and designers in general.

O autorze

Arminda Guerra Lopes, Lic. in Languages and Modern Literature,
Universidade Clássica, Lisboa. Msc in Speech and Language
Processing, Essex University, Uk. PhD in Human Computer
Interaction, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK. Professor at
Instituto Politécnico, Castelo Branco, Portugal. Interests:
Interaction Design, Interdisciplinary Collaboration.