About Designing Analysing Design Meetings

The twenty-one contributions to About: Designing draw on a rich variety of methodological positions, research backgrounds and design disciplines including architecture, product design, engineering, applied linguistics, communication studies, cognitive psychology, and discourse studies. Collectively these studies comprise a state-of-the-art overview of design thinking research. About: Designing will be of interest to design researchers at any level, as well as specialists in a broad range of design disciplines and social studies.

1 IntroductionPart 1: Understanding Design Processes 2 Intersections of Brainstorming Rules and Social OrderBen Matthews 3 Spider Webbing: A Paradigm for Engineering Design Conversations during Concept GenerationAde Mabogunje, Ozgur Eris, Neeraj Sonalkar, Malte Jung & Larry Leifer 4 Co-evolution in Design PracticeIsabelle Reymen, Kees Dorst & Frido Smulders Part 2: Values in Designing 5 Ethical Imagination and DesignPeter Lloyd6 The Mechanisms of Value Transfer in Design MeetingsChristopher Le Dantec & Ellen Yi-Luen Do 7 Affect-in-Cognition through the Language of AppraisalsAndy Dong, Maaike Kleinsmann & Rianne Valkenburg Part 3: Aspects of Design Cognition8 Analogical Reasoning and Mental Simulation in Design: Two Strategies Linked to Uncertainty ResolutionLinden J. Ball & Bo T. Christensen 9 Task, Team, Process: The Development of Shared Representations in an Engineering Design TeamPetra Badke-Schaub, Kristina Lauche, Andre Neumann & Saeema Ahmed 10 Variants and Invariants of Design CognitionÖmer AkinPart 4: Design Process Models 11 The Influence of the Design Task Description on the Course and Outcome of Idea Generation MeetingsKilian Gericke, Michael Schmidt-Kretschmer & Luciënne Blessing 12 Using the FBS Ontology to Capture Semantic Design Information in Design Protocol StudiesJeff Kan & John Gero Part 5: Language, Discourse and Gesture 13 ‘Does this compromise your design?’ Socially Producing a Design Concept in Talk-in-InteractionRachael Luck 14 Collaborative Negotiation in Design: A Study of Design Conversations between Architect and Building UsersJanet McDonnell 15 The Function of Gesture in an Architectural Design MeetingWillemien Visser 16 Aspects of Language Use in Design ConversationFriedrich Glock Part 6: Constructing Roles 17 Performing Architecture: Talking ‘Architect’ and ‘Client’ into BeingArlene Oak 18 Behind the Scenes of the Design Theatre: Actors, Roles and the Dynamics of CommunicationGabriela Goldschmidt & Doron Eshel 19 Exploring the Boundaries: Language, Roles and Structures in Cross-Disciplinary Design TeamsRobin Adams, Llewellyn Mann, Shawn Jordan & Shanna Daly Part 7: Objects, References, Context 20 From Ronchamp by Sledge: On the Pragmatics of Object ReferencesMartin Stacey, Claudia Eckert & Chris Earl 21 Keeping Traces of Design Meetings through Intermediary ObjectsEmine Serap Arikog?lu, Eric Blanco & Franck Pourroy22 Matters of Context in DesignCynthia Atman, Jim Borgford-Parnell, Katherine Deibel, Allison Kang, ai Ho Ng, Deborah Kilgore & Jennifer Turns

Janet McDonnell is Professor of Design Studies at Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design, University of the Arts, London, UK. Peter Lloyd is Senior Lecturer and Head of the Design Group at The Open University, UK.