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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Design Creativity"”.
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Exploring design space representations for design creativity research and education
… is. This work investigates how the concept of design spaces is employed in design creativity research and education. To do so, a literature review focussed on the design space concept both within the design discipline and beyond it. This provides a starting point to understand current …
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Interior design creativity: the development and testing of a methodology for the consensual assessment of projects
… were: (1) to adapt the Consensual Technique for Creativity Assessment (Amabile, 1982; 1983a) methodology for use in the domain of interior design; and (2) to provide evidence for reliability and construct validity of the methodology. Participants were subjects who created the 18 projects used in …
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Skills for Creativity in Graphic Design: Testing the relationship between visualisation, written comprehension, and graphic design creativity
… thesis explores the relationship between skills, creativity and domain. It is situated within an evolving topic of design creativity; an emerging field that interfaces between creativity research, which has often occurred in the field of psychology, and design research often associated with the …
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Skills for Creativity in Graphic Design: Testing the relationship between visualisation, written comprehension, and graphic design creativity
… thesis explores the relationship between skills, creativity and domain. It is situated within an evolving topic of design creativity; an emerging field that interfaces between creativity research, which has often occurred in the field of psychology, and design research often associated with the …
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The Search For Structure in a Baptist Church
… Church of Guilford in Columbia, MD is seeking a design for its fourth church due to its ever increasing membership. The needs of its members and surrounding community are however not limited to worship but also include the desire for commercial areas for business ventures, day care, and …
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Theory and Methodology for Forming Creative Design Teams in a Globally Distributed and Culturally Diverse Environment
… have investigated psychological factors for design creativity and effective global collaboration; however, few have addressed these factors concurrently. The focus of this dissertation is therefore on the formation of creative design teams in a globally distributed and culturally diverse …
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The missing designers : a history of activists designing for racial justice
Design precedents are often de-historicized, de-politicized, and de-raced. By starting at the margins, what lineages can designers uncover for seemingly apolitical design tactics? Intervening in the genealogy of race and design, this thesis locates design creativity within Black resistance …
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Rethinking innovation in computational design : a theoretical framework for innovative strategies to enhance the efficiency of the ‘digital’ in architectural design
… the potential for ‘digital’ in architectural design that is demonstrated in a minority of architectural practices, and its marginalisation in the remaining majority, there is a need to enhance the efficiency of ‘digital’ in architectural design. The vast array of digital technologies alongside …
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Static Stability and Seismic Safety of Brunelleschi’s Dome of Santa Maria del Fiore
… Fiore is a long-standing pinnacle of engineering design creativity and fifteenth-century architectural grandeur. Its construction process and stability have been surveyed and researched for centuries. This thesis studies the dome of Santa Maria del Fiore dome in Florence, Italy in a two-fold …
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The Role of Images in Support of Graphic Design Ideation
Graphic design is a discipline whose purpose is the creation of visual messages delivered to an audience, typically on behalf of a client. Practitioners of design are encouraged to demonstrate creativity in the execution of their work, and to develop and maintain awareness of visual culture to …
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Effects of Group Interactive Brainstorming on Creativity
… is often increased by enhancing or nurturing creativity.This experimental study investigated the effect of group verbally interactive brainstorming (social interaction) on creativity, not by comparing the number of ideas generated on a simple task in a brainstorming session, but by assessing …
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Siberian imaginaries: evaluating participatory placemaking as a tool for civic development of shared spaces in the postcolonial contexts of Yakutsk and Lensk, north-eastern Siberia
… for data collection included facilitation of co-design workshops, hands-on building initiatives, and snowballing interviews. These research methods use the community auto-ethnographic lens to empower local participants as the main decision makers. The case studies of Oyuur Park in Lensk and Dog …
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The values of urban design - spatial models
… (UNeMos) is a research technique and a design decision aid in urban design. UNeMOS are network science-based configurational metrics of urban morphology that can inform urban designing decision-making, helping designers to discriminate between different 2D and 3D design options. However, …
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Experimental Navigation and the Creative Process
… and ways in which this activity can inspire creativity. This process is intended to create a new awareness of the urban landscape, break out of the prescribed, and to inspire innovation. The range of possibilities for this way of navigating is vast, and part of the challenge of my experience …
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Designing with crowds
… plays an essential role in the evolution of a design from initial concept to final representation. There are several approaches to receive feedback on designs such as organizing critiques, informally asking peers, and participating in online feedback communities. However, these social …
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Methodological investigations into design inspiration and fixation experiments
Designers often look for inspiration in their environment when exploring possible solutions to a given problem. However, many studies have reported that external stimuli may constrain designers’ imagination and limit their exploration to similar solutions, a phenomenon described as design fixation. …
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Designing in creativity: an investigation into the role of creativity in graphic design
Graphic design practice is currently entrenched within a process-driven, formulaic approach to design that is time constrained and closely aligned with the working practices of the business environment. This approach is not conducive to creativity. Although design institutions recognise the call …