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Transfiguring Disciplinary Boundaries
“...a blurring of traditional design domains.” [Sanders, 2006]
“...a new capacity for collaboration has encouraged new types of design practice.” [Hight and Perry, 2006].
“Encouraged by the rise of telecommunication technologies, new interconnections and configurations of knowledge have materialized and presented new opportunities for creative practice.” [Gibbons et al, 1994].
Changes in Design Practice
• Professional (Discipline Blurring)• Economical (Employment and Financial Shifts)• Technological (Developments in Information and Computing
Technologies)
The problems of society are increasingly complex and interdependent.
They are not isolated to particular sectors or disciplines.
They are emergent phenomena with non-linear uncertainties.
“Designers no longer fit neatly into categories such as product, furniture and graphics; rather they are a mixture of artists, engineers, designers, entrepreneurs and anthropologists.” [West, 2007]
Designer Disciplines Objectives Outputs
Loop.ph TechnologyDecorative design
Beginning a digital arts and crafts movement.
Linking technology to natureEnvironmentally
responsive textiles.Electronic wallpaper.
TroikaArt
Graphic designProduct design
Socio-political interventions.Subverting existing devices.
Tool for armchair activists.
SMS guerrilla projector.
Moritz Waldemeyer
MechatronicsDesign
Exploiting technology to transform designed objects
and spaces.Robotic dress.
Computer controlled chandelier.
Simon Heijdens ArtDesign
Eradicating divisions between art and design.
Moving wallpaper.Ceramic tableware.
GreyworldSpatial design
MusicTheatre design
Create works that articulate public spaces.
Interactive railings.Kinetic sculpture.
DanielEatock
Graphic designArt
Furniture designDocumentation of everyday objects presented in a non-
standard way. Graphics.Furniture.
Art.
Helmut SmitsSculpture
Furniture designSpatial design
Link things together to make strong, simple images.
FurniturePublic artLighting
Atelier van Lieshout
ArtDesign
ArchitectureThe emphasis is on the work being produced by a creative
team.SculptureFurniture
Mobile home units
Designer Disciplines Objectives Outputs
Loop.ph TechnologyDecorative design
Beginning a digital arts and crafts movement.
Linking technology to natureEnvironmentally
responsive textiles.Electronic wallpaper.
Designer Disciplines Objectives Outputs
TroikaArt
Graphic designProduct design
Socio-political interventions.Subverting existing devices.
Tool for armchair activists.
SMS guerrilla projector.The Cloud, T5.
Designer Disciplines Objectives Outputs
Atelier van Lieshout
ArtDesign Architecture
The emphasis is on the work being produced by a creative
team.SculptureFurniture
Mobile home units
Designer Disciplines Type Objectives Outputs
Jonathan Ive
Industrial Design
Disciplinary Designer
Aesthetics, functionality and the craft of manufacture.
Attention to detail.
iMac, iPod and the IPhone.
Designer Disciplines Type Objectives Outputs
Philippe Starck
Transport, Interior, Product, Furniture
Multi-disciplinary
Designer
Longevity, morality and honesty as
integral to the design process
(Fiell, 2006).
Juicy Salif, lemon squeezer. Louis Ghost
chair. Café Costesin.
Designer Disciplines Type Objectives Outputs
Elio Cacavale
Product DesignBiotechnology
Cross-disciplinary
Designer
Critically explore social and ethical aspects of hybrid grounds such as
advances in biotechnology.
Utility pets project (smoke eater, toy
communicator)The future family’s project (Dummy
tummy).
Designer Disciplines Type Objectives Outputs
Moritz Waldemeyer
DesignMechatronics
Inter-disciplinary
Designer
Exploiting technology to transform
designed objects and spaces.
Pong and roulette tables.Robotic dress.
Designer Disciplines Type Objectives Outputs
Greyworld SculptureArchitecture
ProductMusic
Trans-disciplinary
Designer
Create works that articulate public
spaces.
The Source. Interactive railings. Kinetic sculpture. Public Art Interventions.
There are significant transformations within the design industry. Projects now integrate various disciplinary influences, skills, knowledge, and new designer hybrids.
‘Multi-disciplinary design’, ‘cross-disciplinary design’, ‘interdisciplinary design’ and ‘trans-disciplinary design’ each have their own distinct characteristics.
Are Definitions of Design Relevant today?
In practice, disciplines are constructs that we can choose to adhere to or not.
In academia, discipline boundaries are important for research/teaching.
What are the implications for design practice, education and research?
What methods will foster ‘better’ approaches to design?
How can we improve the activities of designing objects and ‘cultures’?
Thank You.Any Questions?
