A SIRN View on Design Thinking—An Urban Design Perspective

2014 ◽  
Vol 41 (5) ◽  
pp. 829-846 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juval Portugali ◽  
Egbert Stolk
Keyword(s):  
Urban Design ◽  
Design Thinking ◽  
Design Perspective

scholarly journals Design Thinking for Computer-Aided Co-Design in Architecture and Urban Design

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shuva Chowdhury
Keyword(s):  
System Design ◽  
Product Design ◽  
Urban Design ◽  
Design Thinking ◽  
Communication Media ◽  
Design Framework ◽  
Design Communication ◽  
Design Task ◽  
Virtual Tools ◽  
Computer Aided

Bringing the designer’s concept to the non-design expert’s communicative level requires a significant understanding of the communication media. Primarily the design communication depends on the type of the tools used. Virtual tools with their pre-set operability limit the designer’s ways of interaction with the artefacts. This article proposes a framework for designers to interact with non-design experts through an enhanced communicative media. The design framework indicates steps of design thinking to develop the interface by understanding both the virtual artefacts’ perceptual affordance to the users and the design task. The paper discusses about projects tested in three different scenarios, urban design, architecture, and product design. It concludes with the arguments on designers’ role as authors of the system design.

scholarly journals INTEGRATION OF REVEALED KNOWLEDGE INTO DESIGN THINKING: AN URBAN DESIGN STUDIO EXPERIMENT

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 36
Author(s):  
Ilya Fadjar Maharika
Keyword(s):  
Urban Design ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Design Thinking ◽  
Reflective Writing ◽  
Islamic Education ◽  
Design Studio ◽  
Human Knowledge ◽  
Architecture Education ◽  
The World ◽  
Architectural Design Studio

<p class="Keywords">Integration of human knowledge principle has been widespread in the world of Islamic education, including in Indonesia. Partially seen as an attempt to build a school of thought of architecture education, the principle opens the discussion on the discursive level of design thinking. This paper reveals an explorative effort to translate the idea into a class experiment in an architectural design studio. This class experimental research uses a content analysis of students’ reflective writing who involve the design process that deliberately begins with the introduction of revealed knowledge (Arabic: <em>wahy</em>) in Architectural Design Studio 7 at the Department of Architecture, Universitas Islam Indonesia. In conclusion, it has formulated a dynamic and multi-dimensional construction of design thinking based on the integration of knowledge</p>

Urban Design

Urban Health ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 256-261 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oliver Gruebner ◽  
Layla McCay
Keyword(s):  
Health Behaviors ◽  
Urban Design ◽  
Urban Health ◽  
Physical Environment ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Daily Activities ◽  
Urban Residents ◽  
Industrial Facilities ◽  
Retail Outlets ◽  
Design Perspective

The features of the urban built environment influence the daily activities and health behaviors of people living in cities. Thus, it is possible to design cities in ways that can reduce poor health and support the well-being of urban residents. Urban design is the framework that gives form and shape to the components of the urban physical environment, including streets, residences, retail outlets, and industrial facilities. In giving form to the urban physical environment an urban design perspective creates an opportunity to shape cities and, in so doing, to shape how cities influence the health of their populations. This chapter introduces an urban design perspective and offer examples of how an urban design lens can help us understand urban health to the end of improving the health of urban populations.

Tracing objects of a lost room in suburbia

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 615-625
Author(s):  
Gul Kacmaz Erk ◽  
Tevfik Balcioglu
Keyword(s):  
Urban Design ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Everyday Objects ◽  
Moving Images ◽  
Design Perspective ◽  
First Time ◽  
The Relationship

PurposeBringing product design and architectural design together, this article looks into the extraordinary use of everyday objects in urban and suburban spaces in The Lost Room mini-television series (2006). The study questions the accepted meanings of products and spaces in relation to their physicality, perception and use. Through multi-layered analysis of the relationship between objects, (architectural and suburban/urban) spaces and their users, the article opens up a discussion about the purpose, meaning and influence of designed products and places.Design/methodology/approachIn this context, this qualitative research makes use of moving images (as representations of products and spaces) to propose a critique of contemporary design via (sub-)urban design practices.FindingsUsing irony and metaphor to question the habit of object possession, accumulation and fetishism, the series challenges blind loyalty to contemporary beliefs. The Lost Room is not concerned with new forms or new designs. Instead, it forces the audience to consider the meaning of both objects and spaces in relation to one another. By transforming our understanding of space, the series also reveals humans' spatial limitations. The Lost Room is a unique small screen “product” in which people's relationship to the designed world is interrogated by having mass-produced objects and the built environment constantly in the foreground.Originality/valueFilm analysis from a design perspective is not new; however, this is the first time The Lost Room is brought to the attention of architects and designers via scholarly work. Film theorists and cinemagoers may also benefit from the unique design perspective outlined in the article.

scholarly journals Urban design for mobilities – towards material pragmatism

2018 ◽  
Vol 56 (4) ◽  
pp. 5-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ole B. Jensen
Keyword(s):  
Urban Design ◽  
Social Action ◽  
Urban Transformation ◽  
Pragmatic Approach ◽  
Jane Jacobs ◽  
Design Perspective ◽  
The Cross

Abstract The aim of this paper is twofold: firstly, to present a critique of mainstream transport thinking based on the so-called ‘mobilities turn’, and secondly to connect this to a design perspective. The aim is thus to establish this reflection based upon a theoretically informed discussion. In this paper, we shall explore the potential for a better understanding of contemporary urban challenges through the cross-disciplinary approach of ‘mobilities design’. The paper investigates how this notion is based on an understanding of materialities and social action that is framed under the heading of ‘material pragmatism’. The paper critically discusses transport versus mobilities and uses the combination of urban design and mobilities not just to argue for a pragmatic approach to urban transformation, but also to illustrate how such a different frame of understanding is better suitable for the ‘kind of a problem a city is’ to paraphrase the well-known urban scholar Jane Jacobs.

scholarly journals Justification for ‘Scrapping the Sky’ A Comprehensive International Review of Skyscrapers/High-Rise Buildings from an Urban Design Perspective

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-72
Author(s):  
Tamas Lukovich
Keyword(s):  
Urban Design ◽  
Good Thing ◽  
International Review ◽  
Widespread Application ◽  
High Rise ◽  
Design Perspective ◽  
Design Solutions

Abstract The magic ‘vertical’ has always been a spiritually distinctive preoccupation of architecture throughout history. The paper intends to examine, from a series of perspectives, if the high-rise in principle is a good thing. The focus is on urban design implications, however engineering challenges and their design solutions are inseparable aspects of the problematic. It is also to further demystify some ideologies still attached to their widespread application. It concludes that there is a new awareness evolving about high-rise design that is superior to previous approaches.

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