The more complex a human action is, the greater the need to formulate a plan of action, devise a method of implementation, and evaluate its execution. Such preparation is called design or planning, and can be defined as a conceptual preparation for action. Design and planning by themselves are so complex and important that they need informed preparation, which calls for systematic designological studies.
This volume brings together original contributions of researchers and practitioners in design theory, design research, and design studies. Its main purpose is to highlight the possibilities of the discipline of designology. Doing and thinking, or thinking and doing, whatever the order, are intertwined. That is why praxiology, the science of action, defines design as a conceptual preparation of action.
Included here are contributions from Jack Brzezinski, Eduardo Corte-Real, Nigel Cross, Michel Faucheux, Joelle Forest, Wojciech W. Gasparski, Ioannes B. Kapelouzos, Thorbjoern Mann, Tom Maver, Tarkko Oksala, Tufan Orel, Sevil Saryldz, and Ladislav Tondl. Designology is the latest volume in Transaction's highly regarded Praxiology series.
Edited by:
Wojciech W. Gasparski,
Tufan Orel
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United States
Volume: 22
Dimensions:
Height: 229mm,
Width: 152mm,
Spine: 18mm
Weight: 408g
ISBN: 9781412854757
ISBN 10: 141285475X
Series: Praxiology
Pages: 198
Publication Date: 30 August 2014
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
,
Undergraduate
,
Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
"Editorial, Wojciech W. Gasparski Introduction, Tufan Orel Part One: Designological Ideas Designology: Toward a Unifi ed Science on Design Revisited, Wojciech W. Gasparski On the Science of Design or ""Designology"" Revisited, Tufan Orel Francisco d'Hollanda's ""Sciencia do Desegno"" Early Modern Designology, Eduardo Corte-Real Designology and Technology, Michel Faucheux and Joelle Forest Refl ective Conceptions on Design: Understanding Design between Esthetics and Poetics, Tarkko Oksala Part Two: Design as Human Action New Tasks and Functions of Technological Designing, Ladislav Tondl Strategic Thinking in Design Practice, Nigel Cross Argumentative Planning and Policy-Making Discourse with Argument Evaluation, Thorbjoern Mann The Impact of Information Technology in Architecture Design, Tom Maver Part Three: Domains of Application Is Architectural Design a Science?, Sevil Saryldz Modeling Software Systems, Jack Brzezinski The Design of Jurisprudence on Environmental Protection and Sustainability by the Hellenic Supreme Administrative Court and Its Relation to the Classical Greek Value System, Ioannes B. Kapelouzos Notes about the Authors"
Wojciech W. Gasparski, Tufan Orel
Reviews for Designology: Studies on Planning for Action
-[T]he editors remind us that the status of the Design Knowledge was one of the major debates in the academic milieu over the past thirty or forty years. . . . The essays that contain this book are written by thirteen contributors--representing nine different countries. . . . [T]he thematic of the book: the idea of Designology is to encourage a 'tendency' for 'the gradual unification of various currents of design studies into a unified discipline.' . . . [V]ery rich documentation. . . . [An] interesting study on the meaning of design related to 'planning' and 'action.'- --Journal of Innovation Economics & Management
