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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Design Discourse"”.
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Web design discourse and access : a case study of student entry into a web design Discourse in the Multimedia Technology programme at CPUT
… to explore how access opportunities into a web design Discourse can be enhanced. The study is located in the Multimedia Skills subject which is part of the Certificate in Multimedia Technology at Cape Peninsula University of Technology. In describing student entry into a web design environment, …
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Occupying Time: Design, technology, and the form of interaction
… possibilities and problematics are raised for design. Attention in contemporary design discourse is shifting ‘beyond the object’, to the qualities of processes and experiences. The boxes and screens typically the ‘object’ of interaction and interface design are miniaturizing, even …
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Domesticating sprawl : Dearborn Michigan and the Green Moat
… frame of the car's windshield. Contemporary design discourse has interrogated sprawl from many angles in search for ways to intervene in the most popular and most impenetrable form of American urbanism, issuing discussions ranging from those that raise polar alternatives to those that accept …
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A Postcolonial Critique of Industrial Design: A critical evaluation of the relationship of culture and hegemony to design practice and education since the late 20th century.
A Postcolonial Critique of Industrial Design: A critical evaluation of the relationship of culture and hegemony to design practice and education since the late 20th century. This thesis specifically focuses on the professional practices and training of Western industrial designers using …
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Ethical design: a foundation for visual communication.
… of ethical theory specifically in relation to design, with a focus on visual communication design. Building on earlier work by design theorist Clive Dilnot in the area of design ethics and on philosopher Giorgio Agambens formulation of the philosophical concept of potentiality, a way of …
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Democratizing global tourism or designing diversity to reach harmony
… performance, payback and social motivations as design strategies prompt a new type of thinking that simultaneously critiques and challenges the ecological neutrality with which the current architectural and urban design discourse perceives the life in rural areas. It examines tourism as a …
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Design as criticism: methods for a critical graphic design practice
… research is the result of an interest in graphic design as a specific critical activity. Existing in the context of the 2008 financial and subsequent political crisis, both this thesis and my work are situated in an expaded field of graphic design. This research examines the emergence of the terms …
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The design process of a collaborative orchestration tool and its implications for instructor uptake
As design-based research becomes a widely used methodology in the Learning Sciences, research is needed to understand how this methodology is applied in practice. The present study responds to calls from the field, for researchers to disseminate the design processes when conducting design-based …
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A Study of Similarity and Analogical Decision-Making in Collaborative Design
… the role of similarity and analogy in design communication and propose a descriptive representation of the analogical decision-making process in the context of engineering design. It is proposed that social, cultural, and contextual knowledge are brought to bear on statements of need in …
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Discursive Designing Theory - Towards a Theory of Designing Design -
Discursive Designing Theory - Towards a Theory of Designing Design- Juergen Faust Motivated by the immature theoretical framework of design, this thesis employs transdisciplinary discourse to provide a contemporary and forward-looking model of design and design theory, as well as the linkages …
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Sketches Count: The Mies Van Der Rohe’s Dirksen Courthouse Archive Redrawn
… conventions underlying contemporary courthouse design. Archived in the Mies van der Rohe Archive at the Museum of Modern Art New York, a significant resource associated with the design of the courthouse is the extensive documentation of the design process at the office of Mies. This body of work …