This is a sketchnote made whilst reading through the content from U101 on “What is design”. Some points were known to me, due to my work in creativity & innovation. I particularly liked Hamdi’s Code of Conduct.

 

References provided with the resource:

Anon (2005) ‘Alsop Design’s Stirling entry’, World Architecture News. Unfortunately, the original source is no longer available but the article by Jonathan Glancy (2004) ‘Run away to the circus’, The Guardian, is worth reading Available online at : http://www.guardian.co.uk/ artanddesign/ 2004/ dec/ 13/ architecture.regeneration
Foster and Partners, Swiss Re HQ. Available online at: http://www.fosterandpartners.com/ projects/ 30-st-mary-axe/
Hamdi, N. (2004) Small Change – About the Art of Practice and the Limits of Planning in Cities, London: Earthscan.
Zohar, D. (1997) Rewiring the Corporate Brain, San Francisco CA: Berrett-Koehler, p. 38.
References for Revealing the characteristics of design thinking
Calatrava, S. (2005) quoted in Lawson, B. How Designers Think, Architectural Press, p. 279.
Cross, N. (2004a) ‘Expertise in design: an overview’, Design Studies, vol. 25, no. 5, pp. 427–441.
Cross, N. (2004b) ‘Creative thinking by expert designers’, Journal of Design Research, vol. 4, no. 3.
Cross, N. (2006) Designerly Ways of Knowing, London: Springer.
Cross, N. and Cross, A.C. (1996) ‘Winning by design: the methods of Gordon Murray, racing car designer’, Design Studies, vol. 17, pp. 91–107. Available online at: http://design.open.ac.uk/ cross/ documents/ WinningbyDesign.pdf
Happold, T. (2007) quoted in Cross, N., ‘Natural and artificial intelligence in design’, in Kimbell, R. and Stables, K. (eds.) Researching Design Learning, London: Springer.
Harcourt, G. (2006) quoted by Cross, N., in Designerly Ways of Knowing, London: Springer, p. 32.
Howe, J. (1995) quoted in Cross, N., ‘Discovering design ability’ in Buchanan, R. and Margolin. V. (eds.) Discovering Design, University of Chicago Press.
Lasdun (1965) quoted in Cross, N. (1999) ‘Natural intelligence in design’, Design Studies, no. 20, p. 25.
MacCormac, R. (1976) quoted in Cross, N. (2001) ‘The nature and nurture of design ability’, in Owen-Jackson, G. (ed.) Teaching Design and Technology in Secondary Schools, Routledge.
Simon, H. (1981) The Sciences of the Artificial (2nd edn). Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.

Further reading

This book is one of the early attempts to characterise the procedures of design, and it continues to have value for those seeking to understand design thinking: Jones, J.C. (1970) Design Methods, Chichester: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
Nigel Cross has published a book on design thinking that expands on the points he makes in the reading:
Cross, N. (2011) Understanding How Designers Think and Work, Oxford: Berg
You will find more information on the Tugendhat House designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe at: Villa Tugendhat
A selection of chair designs by Geoffrey Harcourt are featured at: Architonic
You might like to read the obituary of Jack Howe, an important designer of the 20th century, in The Telegraph.
These two national organisations provide useful information about design and design thinking in society.
  1. The website of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) provides a very broad picture of design and creativity and how it can impact on the big issues of our time – from climate change to health and security. It has a great lecture series that you can view online and even attend for free if you register in advance.
  2. The Design Council is the UK’s National Design Agency and is funded by the Government. Its remit is to promote the use of design in all walks of life and its website provides lots of information about design, design examples and processes and publications that the Design Council have produced over the years.