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Rethinking design: from the methodology of innovation to the object of design
journal contribution
posted on 2019-03-26, 10:24 authored by Ruth Neubauer, Erik Bohemia, Kerry HarmanThe design literature theorizes design as the methodology of innovation, supposedly required for mediating the world’s separate entities, such as theory and practice, the human and the material, and subjective and objective knowing, coming “naturally” with the designer’s ways of knowing. But instead of taking such naturalizations for granted, we argue that through such positioning of design the specifics of design activity are obscured, along with the locations designers take within them. We propose that “design as a methodology” is an object produced by design. Investigating this object of design, and how it is made, will make visible what design activity is, and what locations the designers take within them.
History
School
- Loughborough University London
Published in
Design IssuesVolume
36Issue
2Pages
18 - 27Citation
NEUBAUER, R., BOHEMIA, E. and HARMAN, K., 2020. Rethinking design: from the methodology of innovation to the object of design. Design Issues, 36 (2), pp.18-27.Publisher
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press (MIT Press)Version
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
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© Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyPublisher statement
NEUBAUER, R., BOHEMIA, E. and HARMAN, K., 2020. Rethinking design: from the methodology of innovation to the object of design. Design Issues, 36 (2), pp.18-27. © Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The journal homepage is at: https://www.mitpressjournals.org/loi/desiAcceptance date
2019-03-08Publication date
2020-04-06Copyright date
2020ISSN
0747-9360eISSN
1531-4790Publisher version
Language
- en