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Confessions of a Journal Editor Jeffrey J. Williams Carnegie Mellon University Editor, Minnesota Review

Want to know what an editor is really thinking when Table of Contents: he’s reading that article you submitted? Articles: It’s good that people can’t hear me it better. Nowadays there is very little 1 Confessions of a Journal Editor when I edit their writing. “Blah blah serious editing in academe. It’s a scan- Jeffrey J. Williams blah.” “Is this a garbled translation dal, and I think we should change it. (reprinted from The Chronicle of Higher from the Cyrolean?” “Did you reread Editing, like sending thank-you Education) your writing? I’m not your mother.” cards, is one of those things that every- “Urrrh.” It wouldn’t be polite. one acknowledges is a good idea but 4 DRS 2008 Conference: Undisciplined! I have edited a literary and cultur- that few people do. It takes time and Abstracts deadline: Nov. 15 al-studies journal for the past 15 years, you don’t reap much reward, certain- and it’s hard not to feel some irritation ly not equivalent to the time. There Listings: when it seems I pay more attention to is probably not enough attention to 7 New Fellow of the Design Research other people’s words than they do. teaching writing in graduate school, Society Of course some academic writing but at least you have plenty of models Nigel Cross is as elegant as the drape of Armani, and plenty of chances to practice. and one can’t expect everyone to write Models of editing are scarce — that 8 Current Research in Design: Tables of as well as Louis Menand. But if you is, unless you work with commercial Contents from Leading pick up a typical article in an academic presses or magazines. There, editors Design Journals journal, what happens? Does it put the really edit. We think of those venues Kristi Brownfield ding in plodding? as shallow slaves to the market, but I don’t think it’s because people have they often pay more attention to the 16 Upcoming Events Worldwide nothing to say but because they don’t words and ideas than we do. They nev- Artemis Yagou manage to corral what they want to er lose sight of their audience, holding say, and they don’t get any instruction. the quaint assumption that writing is Call for Papers I don’t mean copy editing, although actually written for people — not for 6 Design Research Quarterly that’s faded from the days when two tenure or a CV, both of whom are tone- Case Studeis in Design Research: copy editors would sit in an office and deaf. Knowledge and Inquiry read the text backwards to glean any Editing can sometimes be overbear- mistakes. ing, or twist what you want to say, but 16 AIEDAM Journal (Artificial Intelligence I mean editing in the style of Max most editing is sympathetic. The best for Engineering Design, Analysis and Perkins, editing that engages the text editing is like ventriloquism. It makes Manufacturing) at hand, pares it, kneads it, and makes the edited text sound exactly like you, but better. Shorter, sharper, more DRQ-DRS orderly. It’s like getting a transcript 2 Publication information 17 Membership information

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Design Research Quarterly 2:4 Oct. 2007 – 2 – www.designresearchsociety.org From the Editor Peter Storkerson Citations, Clarity, Plagiarism and Writing Skill The new president of Southern Illinois University faced and In US, higher education, general literacy is often survived charges of plagiarism in his doctoral dissertation addressed through ‘writing across the curriculum’: ‘writing and masters thesis. This was a brief episode (from August to learn’ and ‘writing in the disciplines’. Writing to learn to October 2007), but it was unpleasant. As is almost always develops skills through assignments including short essays the case, the exoneration was less than complete, and every- and journals, while writing in the disciplines focuses on one involved was to some degree tainted. An internal panel the distinct vocabularies and usages of different disciplines found that the works were within the accepted style at the (Purdue University Online Writing Lab). These programs time when they were written but sloppy by current comput- are often presented through campus wide writing and sup- er/internet age standards. port centers, which are outside of the normal academic sub- jects and are often treated as remedial. Poshard’s usage included an informal style also used by some of Insofar as writing is addressed within design, it is often his contemporaries.…There are many instances in the disserta- addressed as a liberal art (Marks, 2004), or as limited by the tion where words of others are present in a continuous flow with contexts of specific design projects, briefs, vitae, or client Poshard’s own words, so readers cannot distinguish between communications. This piecemeal approach does not suit sources. Many times, a citation including a page number for the the need, because it is not comprehensive, provides prac- source is provided, consistent with the informal style. There also tice but no meta-knowledge, and because the appearance of are several instances of mistakes within this style, which Poshard writing, ad hoc, in the curriculum supports students’ pre- acknowledges as careless or misremembering. … conceptions and instructors’ prejudices toward writing as (Associated Press, 2007). ‘outside design’. These are generalizations and there are certainly excep- This episode points to a conundrum in scholarship: how tions, some highly notable (see Carnegie Mellon Universi- to simultaneously maintain documentation, communica- ty, 2007). Persons in different design fields and educational tive clarity and the presentation of one’s own voice. Eminent systems will know whether these comments are applicable scholars are able to omit references that would be required to them. of others. It is as if over a career, one comes to accrete, from various sources, some of the ideas and language that one All of this leaves two questions: ‘owns’. eeDo certain kinds of writing merit being addressed as sub- As a student and early in one’s career, it may be impor- jects in themselves within design curricula? tant to demonstrate literacy and grounding and to use the eeCould ‘design of writing’ be counted within the ambit of display thereof to stake-out an area of research. At the same design? time, innumerable citations can get in the way of clear writ- ing. This is a matter of concern for a journal that needs arti- cles that are both researched to scholarly standards and as clear as possible for readers in the range of design fields. Reconciling the documentation with communication Carnegie Mellon University 2007. Communication Planning and Information Design. requires skills. Designers need communication skills in a Retrieved October 29, 2007, from http://design.cmu.edu/show_program. number of specific areas: technical and informational writ- php?s=2&t=2. ing, writing for instruction, and ‘diagrammatic writing’ Associated Press, October 10, 2007. Findings of SIU panel that reviewed Poshard (Horn, R.E.), in which texts are arranged into discrete intel- plagiarism allegations. Retrieved October 29, 2007, from http://news.aol.com/ ligible chunks, which are, often combined with diagrams or story/_a/findings-of-siu-panel-that-reviewed/n20071011163509990017 other sensory materials. These skills would be valuable in Horn, R.E. 1999. Information design: Emergence of a new discipline. In Information scholarly writing, too. Design. Jacobson, R. (ed.) Cambridge; MIT Press, 15-34 Within my experience in the field of communication Marks, Andrea. 2004. The Role of Writing in a Design Curriculum. AIGA Archives. design, writing of the kinds that designers need to mas- Retrieved October 20, 2007 from, http://www.aiga.org/content.cfm/the-role-of- ter is largely neglected in the curriculum. In fact, writing writing-in-a-design-curriculum. as a whole is deprecated, as the field is conveniently cast Purdue University Online Writing Lab. Writing Across the Curriculum and Writing in as ‘visual’ or ‘sensory’ despite the fact that the presence of the Disciplines. Purdue University. Retrieved October 20, 2007 from, http://owl. text in communication design is the rule, rather than the english.purdue.edu/handouts/WAC/. exception.

Design Research Quarterly 2:4 Oct. 2007 – 3 – www.designresearchsociety.org The City of Sheffield has a long asso- on urban design over the past 10 years ciation with design and the study of has created a new and delightful city design. Sheffield Hallam University centre, surrounding our university is one of the oldest design academies with enjoyable spaces as well as public in the world, starting out as Shef- artworks, galleries and cafes. It is also field School of Design in 1843 and a very friendly city. today it is home to an interdisciplin- ary teaching and research centre that So I look forward to welcoming you to Invitation brings together the different arts and our city in the middle of next year’s sciences that make up the landscape English summer. We will have serious The fourth conference in our cur- of 21st century design. The city was work to do but we also aim to create rent series is an important opportu- once a watchword for heavy indus- an enjoyable occasion for you to make nity to take stock. We will be using it trial production, with a dark utilitar- new friendships and renew old ones – to reflect on and develop the way we ian image to match, but today, partly the real glue of any community. run these events as well as aiming to through the influence of its design- provide an important oversight of the ers and artists, it is a centre for new Chris Rust state of the art in research across the cultural industries. Imaginative work

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The conference theme, attending to 16-19July, 2008 the new kinds of designing that are emerging to challenge our framework of specialisms and reshape our field, will provide some focus for keynote Sheffield Hallam University,UK speakers and debates and you may find that relevant to your own work. However this is the main conference Provisional schedule (consult site) for the whole of our society and we are open to all research that informs or 2007 01 Sep Call for Papers arises from designing. 15 Nov Deadline for abstracts You can find out more about the con- Dec Abstracts accepted ference theme and other aspects of 2008 01 Mar Deadline for full papers the event at the conference website at www.drs2008.designinquiry.wikispac- 01 May Authors notified es.net where you can also join the con- 01 Jun Deadline for corrected papers ference mail list to receive updates on the call for papers and the conference arrangements. The call for papers will be announced on 1st September 2007.

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Design Research Quarterly 2:4 Oct. 2007 – 4 – www.designresearchsociety.org Confessions of a Journal Editor… continued from p. 1

of a dinner party and cleaning up the things you said, keep- Self-indulgence. Sometimes academic essays string togeth- ing your words but only the good ones. How many times do er minor corrections or comments on small points, produc- you wish that you hadn’t uttered some line, or had thought ing what Foucault once described as “une petite pedagogie.” of a better one? With editing you can. Reading such essays is like overhearing high-school gossip, Editing can only occur pen in hand, while reading a which endlessly dissects events, and the intricacies of who particular piece of writing. But I’ve observed several ten- said what to whom. dencies in academic writing that, like transfats, everyone The problem is not jargon, but the presumption of inter- should avoid. est and more than a little self-indulgence. Who, other than one’s analyst, should care about a chain of free association? “Glossomania,” or excessive citation. Yes, we know you’ve I’m more interested in where writers have gotten, and they been to the library, or at least Google, but sometimes it’s should distill it before they tell me. “Reductive” has become too much of a boring thing. Or more likely masking inse- a term of dismissal, but history, for instance, would take a curity in a fog of citation. Or simply being lazy. long time to tell without reduction; a key to good academic Rarely do well-known scholars cite a lot. I was cured of writing is distillation. that by a philosophy professor who commented at the end of a paper explicating Aristotle, “You have Aristotle almost Lazy language. Cutting clichéd connectors has cost me letter perfect, although I don’t know if I should give the boxes of blue pens — “in other words,” “to put it another grade to you or to Aristotle.” way,” “in addition,” are the lice of academic writing. Use them once and they might have some snap; use them eight Indirection. Some journal articles suffer from being exces- times in an essay and they’re tics. sively roundabout, taking longer to get to the point than Henry James. A common habit in literary articles is to start Another glitch is announcing or narrating what you are with a quotation or a description of a literary scene. Some- doing, in phrases like “I would like to argue.” Such meta- times, as in Stephen Greenblatt’s essays, that can be a bril- comments might aid in moments of physical intimacy but liant device, but it is sorely overused and often a false start, are usually unnecessary during an essay. Just argue it! the real point being on page 5. Or the main points are buried, in the middle of a paragraph on page 12. And then there are a slew of phrases that should henceforth A reader shouldn’t have to be a detective to find the point. be banned. “Always already” was once striking, but that was I don’t always like his arguments, but I appreciate the mode in 1972 and it’s now a cliché. “Cutting edge” is a phrase that of someone like Stanley Fish: You know what track the train is anything but cutting edge. “Problematic” is just clunky, is on, which way it’s going, and where it stops, and it gets and actually what people probably mean is “troublesome” to the final station on time. Many academic arguments are or “contradictory.” It would be asking too much to stave the more like a Kafka train, only without the irony. tide of Latinates, as George Orwell advises in “Politics and the English Language,” but a little more zip would be nice, False difficulty. A common expression in the humanities and if not zip, then simple is always in style. is that an author “complicates” a topic. That is another academic habit of overcompensation, much like excessive Lest I seem a tad crotchety, let me add that editing does citation. Shouldn’t our goal be explanation rather than carry its share of gratifications. As most editors will tell complication? you, probably the best reward is publishing the first essay Of course not everything can be simple, and difficulty of a young scholar and working with him to refine it. We might go with the territory. But the reverse does not fol- are teachers, after all, and it’s always good when you see low: A torturous explanation does not indicate difficult tangible proof that the lesson took, even better if it goes thought; it usually only indicates bad writing, its faux diffi- beyond anything you might have advised. culty presuming its faux profundity. Think of Wittgenstein: It’s also gratifying to work with a more-experienced He presents us with nubs that gnaw at us, but his sentenc- scholar to whom you suggest a new tack, in keeping with es run clear. her leanings, that she hadn’t thought of. It surprised me

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Design Research Quarterly 2:4 Oct. 2007 – 5 – www.designresearchsociety.org Confessions of a Journal Editor… continued from p. 5

when I first started editing that younger scholars were frequently more set in their ways and less open to chang- Note from the editor es, whereas experienced ones were usually glad if you did Max (William Maxwell Evarts) Perkins: some of their work. Perkins was the ‘Editor of Genius’ at Charles Scribner’s Sons, of authors F. Scott Another gratification is having people tell me (I hope Fitzgerald, John Galsworthy, Ernest Hemingway, Henry James, J.P. Marquand, Alan without tacking my picture to a dart board) that they imag- Payton, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Edith Wharton, and Thomas Wolfe, ine my blue pen when they go over what they have written among others. (red is too 9th-grade English teacher, black hard to distin- guish, and I just like blue). Although “the editor with the blue pen” doesn’t seem quite as elegant as “the reader over your shoulder,” I think they realize that I value what they Citation: have to say, in fact so much that I pay attention to every Confessions of a Journal editor. Jeffrey J Williams (2007). The Chronicle of Higher word. Education, 54:5, p. C1

Jeffrey J. Williams Online: http://chronicle.com Section: Chronicle Careers Volume 54, Issue 5, Page C1 Jeffrey J. Williams: Jeffrey J. Williams is a professor of English and literary and cultural studies at Copyright © 2007 by The Chronicle of Higher Education. reprinted by Carnegie Mellon University and editor of the Minnesota Review. permission DRQ Call for Papers: Case Studies in Research: Knowledge and Inquiry

Designers use the term ‘design’ to cover a wide range of In this way, we can clarify design by mapping its terrain activities and types of problems, and we have many dif- of activities and problem types with their fundamental fering, often incommensurable and opposing models of theoretical and methodological requirements. design and its theoretical and methodological bases. As a Over the next two years, DRQ will collect and publish result, we also have have a history of lively debates over spe- articles on these topics and replies to those articles, using cific theories. These debates have not been able to resolve its regular publication schedule to build a discussion. differences. Inquiries or Submissions: Many regions of design are not well defined, and in such situations, researchers can find that apparently straightfor- Topics: ward problems can lead to fundamental questions about ccontological and epistemological implications or require- the nature of design, what kinds of philosophical and theo- ments of a research problem retical positions that can frame the research and ground the ccstatus of knowledge, its bases and levels of certainty methods, and their implications with regard to knowledge: ccconflicts between the knowledge that is possible in a what kinds of knowledge are possible within the frames given situation and the research goals. needed to do the research. cchow research fits into fundamental paradigms: scien- In short, we want to hold a discussion on how research tific, humanist, phenomenological, pragmatic, etc., and steers theory. Our idea is to look at research and theories in how those approaches compare in their strengths and design not primarily as related to subfields per se, but to see weaknesses theories as products of research problems themselves: the ccworking across the boundaries of humanism and sci- topics studied studied and the questions researched. ence: the extent to which a research problem requires Rather than look at abstract problems of research and use of more than one basic philosophical frame and how theory, we want to present actual problems as case studies. different frames can be reconciled

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Design Research Quarterly 2:4 Oct. 2007 – 6 – www.designresearchsociety.org Election of a Fellow of the Design Research Society Nigel Cross

Most recent election ratified by DRS Council: aa Professor Michael tovey: Dean of the Faculty of Art and Design, Coventry University, UK

The current list of DRS fellows: bb Professor Michael Biggs (University of bb Dr. Christopher Nemeth (University of Chicago, Hertfordshire, UK) USA) bb Professor Tom Cassidy (University of Leeds, UK) bb Professor Rivka Oxman (Technion, , Israel) bb Professor Lin-Lin Chen (National Taiwan bb Dr. Lubomir Popov (Bowling Green State University of Science and Technology, Taiwan) University, USA) bb Professor Rachel Cooper (University of bb Professor Vesna Popovic (Queensland Lancaster, UK) University of Technology, Australia) bb Dr. Linda Drew (University of the Arts, London, bb Professor Robin Roy (The Open University, UK) UK) bb Professor Chris Rust (Sheffield Hallam bb Professor David Durling (Middlesex University, University, UK) UK) bb Professor Keiichi Sato (Illinois Institute of bb Professor Alpay Er (Istanbul Technical Technology, USA) University, Turkey) bb Professor Stephen Scrivener (University of the bb Professor Ken Friedman (Norwegian School of Arts, UK) Management and Denmark’s Design School) bb Professor Erik Stolterman (University of Umeå, bb Dr. Per Galle (Danmarks Designskole, Denmark) Sweden) bb Professor Jack Ingram (University of Central bb Professor Michael Tovey (University of England, UK) Coventry, UK) bb Professor Robert Jerrard (University of bb Professor Sue Walker (University of Reading, Central England, UK) UK) bb Professor Kun-Pyo Lee (Korean Advanced bb Professor Martin Woolley (University of the Institute of Science and Technology, Korea) Arts, UK) bb Dr. Terence Love (Curtin University, Australia) bb Professor Pradeep Yammiyavar (Indian Institute bb Dr. Deana McDonagh (University of Illinois of Technology, Guwahati, India) and Beckman Institute, USA) bb Professor Victor Margolin (University of Honorary Fellows Illinois, USA) bb Professor Nigel Cross bb Professor Sanjoy Mazumdar (University of bb John Christopher Jones California, Irvine, USA) bb Professor John Langrish bb Professor Judith Mottram (Nottingham Trent bb Professor Thomas Maver University, UK) bb Professor Charles Owen

The Design Research Society has established a new grade of membership – Fellow of the DRS. Conferment of the title of Fellow of the Design Research tion to design research. Fellows must be full members Society acknowledges an established record of achievement of the Design Research Society, who satisfy the criteria in design research, and attainment of peer recognition as for election. a researcher of professional standing and competence. Fel- lows of the Society may use the personal suffix of FDRS. Full information and an application form are available on The purpose of the Fellow membership grade is not to the DRS website, under the ‘Fellows’ menu item. reward only the most exceptional people, but to provide an acknowledgement of consistent professional contribu-

Design Research Quarterly 2:4 Oct. 2007 – 7 – www.designresearchsociety.org Current Research in Design Tables of Contents from Leading Design Journals: Spring-Summer, 2007

Architectural Design, 77:5 Sep.– Selected Swiss projects (36-46) Dutch selected projects (74-81) Oct. 2007: Rationalist Traces Torsten Schmiedeknecht Charles Rattray issn: 0003-8504 web link KK Four Swiss buildings; ‘a formal language KK Four Dutch projects; ‘distinctive’ and of Rationalist rigour to dramatic effect,’ ‘pragmatic,’ ‘sophisticated in … On the threshold of Rationalism (6-9) varying ‘treatments interpreting’ development of type, spatial Andrew Peckham, Charles Rattray, Torsten Rationalism configurations and application of Schmiedeknecht elements’ KK ‘Rationalism has fallen out of fashion … Schinkel’s order: Rationalist tendencies in uncover and reassess the Rationalist German architecture (44-49) Rationalist practice (82-83) sensibility among current European Werner Durth, Roland May KK De Architekten Cie., ‘formed in 1988,’ practices’ ee Karl Friederich Schinkel and Mies van der roots go back to the 1960s; reflecting ‘the Rohe: ‘admired for their tectonic order realities of society’ The dichotomies of Rationalism in and purist form’ 20th-century Italian architecture (10-15) French Rationalism: A broken tradition Andrew Peckham Selected German projects (50-59) (84-89) KK ‘A history of discontinuity and, ultimately, Werner Durth, Roland May Joseph Abram recognition of Rationalism’s limitations’ in KK Revisiting Rationalism in ‘four KK ‘Rationalist tendencies in French Italy projects … provide … different strategies architecture;’ 1960s to the ‘Inquietude for dealing with … complex urban contexts’ Lucide’ Selected Italian projects (16-25) Andrew Peckham, Lucia Tozzi Rationalist practice (60-61) Selected French projects (90-97) KK A look at four Rationalist projects in Italy; Max Dudler Joseph Abram ‘how this stubborn but rich seam is cc‘Conveived as autonomous and self- cc‘Some of the buildings that display the full manifesting itself’ referential’ buildings … ‘demonstrate a spectrum of possibilities of the reasoned reciprocal relationship with the city; approach’ An interview with Giorgio Grassi (26-29) consistent Rationalist approach’ Lucia Tozzi An open and flexible tradition (98-101) KK A visit with Grassi, his work, its ‘hermetic Dialogues with OMU (62-67) Josep Maria Montaner aspect, … self-questioning and … political Andrew Peckham, Torsten Schmiedeknecht KK Rationalist architecture in Spain; commitment’ KK A ‘round table’ with O.M. Ungers; ‘his ‘combining Functionalist ideas with a built works, projects, thinking and stripped back repertoire of materials and Concrete constructs: The limits of teaching, … a unique insight to his career elements’ Rationalism in Swiss architecture (30-35) and … preconceptions surrounding it’ Ákos Moravánszky Foster + Partners’ Hearst Tower and Gehry KK Why ‘the traces of Mediterranean The employment of reason (68-73) Partners’ IAC Building (112-117) Rationalism in the new Swiss-German Charles Rattray Jayne Merkel architecture are like the imitation stitching KK Rationalism and pragmatism in the KK Hearst Tower and the IAC Building; sizing on the moulded plastic dashboard of a Netherlands; ‘building cheaply and quickly up what ‘effect exteriors have on the new car a large amount of social housing on a spaces where the editors, writers, small … amount of land’ designers and media executives work’

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AD+ Interior Eye Why critical Modernism? (140-145) Making sense of engineering design review Pedro and Inês Bridge, Coimbra, Charles Jencks activities (243-266) (118-121) KK Critical Modernism: ‘An analytical mode of Gregory Huet, Stephen J. Culley, Christopher Jeremy Melvin perceiving the world in all its complexity’ A. McMahon, Clément Fortin KK How Cecil Balmond and Antonio Adao ee design control activities; information and AD+ Article ‘have created the first bridge that does not knowledge management; information Home body (146-148) meet in the middle for Portugal’s oldest capture; meetings; team communication Leon van Schaik university town’ analysis KK Reviewing Households, a photographic AD+ Building Profile documentary project; portraying ‘people Agents for multidisciplinary design in Gert Wingårdh (122-129) in their own homes, …‘architecture with virtual worlds (267-277) Timothy Tore Hebb the full panoply of human emotions’’ Mary Lou Maher, Michael Rosenman, Kathryn KK Gert Wingårdh; ‘an architect whose Merrick AD+ Article are able to be both responsive to ee artificial agents; collaborative design; Hertzian Space: Material response to the natural environment and ingenious in multidisciplinary design; virtual worlds spatial presence (149-151) their juxtapositions and contrasts’ Mark Taylor Collaborative design exploration in an AD+ Practice Profile cc‘Generating spaces that fully respond to interactive workspace (279-293) Mythic collaboration (130-131) people’s presence’; spatialising ‘the Renate Fruchter, Kushagra Saxena, Matt Neil Spiller dynamics of a full body massage’ Breidenthal, Peter Demian KK Why corporate team management leads ee collaboration; corporate memory; design; Artificial Intelligence for ‘to the mundane …, denying individuality, exploration; interactive workspace Engineering Design, Analysis and creativity and vision’ Manufacturing, 21:3 , June 2007 An ontology of situated design teams AD+ Spiller’s Bits ISSN: 0890-0604 Web Link (295-308) Brigitta Zics: Working on interactive Abstracts online John S. Gero, Udo Kannengiesser potential (132-135) ee design teams; function–behavior– Distributed team design in small- and Valentina Croci structure framework; situatedness; team medium-sized enterprises: How to get it KK Starting a new series looking at interactive interaction right (203-218) technologies; ‘interdisciplinary research of Avril Thomson, Angela Stone, William Ion Artificial Intelligence for the new media artist Brigitta Zics’ ee collaborative team design; distributed Engineering Design, Analysis and AD+ Userscape design teams; small- and medium-sized Manufacturing: 21:4 October 2007 Part 1: Some basic premises for green enterprises; strategy for effective Special Issue: Design Computing design (136-137) distributed team design and Cognition Ken Yeang ISSN: 0890-0604 Web Link Different by design (219-225) KK A new three part series; parameters of W. Mike Martin, Renate Fruchter, Humberto Unveiling the structure of the Marrakech ‘sustainable or green design’ Cavallin, Ann Heylighen Medina: A shape grammar and an inter- AD+ Yeang’s Eco-Files ee collaboration; communication; preter for generating urban form (317-349) Part I: some basic premises for green cooperation; design studio; project-based José P. Duarte, João M. Rocha, Gonçalo Ducla design (132-135) learning Soares Ken Yeang ee generative systems; Islamic architecture; Externalizing tacit overview knowledge: A shape grammars; urban design AD+ Article model-based approach to supporting McLean’s Nuggets (138-139) design teams (227-242) Inductive machine learning of optimal Will McLean Tomás Flanagan, Claudia Eckert, P. John modular structures: Estimating solutions Clarkson using support vector machines (351-366) ee communication; design confidence; Sean Hanna experience; management; negotiation; ee learning; optimization; structures; overview; process modeling; teamwork support vector machines Continued p. 10 Q

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Comparing entropy measures of idea links Book reviews Designing the interface between dementia in design protocols: Linkography entropy Bloomsbury rooms: Modernism, subculture, patients, caregivers and computer based measurement and analysis of differently and domesticity (98-100) intervention conditioned design sessions (367-377) Deborah Sugg-Ryan Gowans et al. Jeff W.T. Kan, Zafer Bilda, John S. Gero The Authority of everyday objects: A A case study of a touch based interface for ee design measurement; design protocols; cultural history of West German industrial in-car audio systems design outcomes; entropy design. Paul Betts (101-102) Bjelland et al. A function–behavior–structure ontology of Paul Jaskot Student use of virtual and physical processes (379-391) Creative code. John Maeda (103-104) modelling in design development – an John S. Gero, Udo Kannengiesser Nico Macdonald experiment in 3D education ee function–behavior–structure framework; C. Charlesworth process ontology; situatedness Design journal, 9: 3 issn: 1460-6925 web link Review Design Issues: 23:4 You Have to Pay for the Public Life; Autumn 2007 Design-based knowledge transfer Selected Essays of Charles Moore. Kevin issn: 0747-9360 web link partnerships Keim (ed.) Bob Jerrard Social innovation and new industrial Michael Todd McCulley contexts: Can designers ‘industrialize’ Enhancing the design capabilities of small Design Management Review, 18:3 socially responsible solutions (3-21) and medium-sized enterprises through The State of Design Management Nicola Morelli knowledge transfer Education Ian Montgomery, Brian McClelland Showing a new world in 1942: The gentle Summer 2007 modernity of Puffin Picture Books (22-38) Clusters: a possible alternative to ktps for issn: 1460-6925 web link Paul Stiff improving design knowledge? Design management comes of age Kathryn Burns Anxiety, wonder and astonishment: The Thomas Walton communion of art and design (39-45) Transfer or emergence: strategies for Design management: Future forward Richard Buchanan building design knowledge through Mary McBride knowledge transfer partnerships The studio: Photomechanical reproduction cc‘…a retrospective look at design Tom Inns, Seaton Baxter, Emma Murphy and the changing status of design (46-61) management and the journey it has taken Gerry Beegan Professionalizing a cottage industry: ktps over the past decade’ and design group development Hiding lack of knowledge: Bad words in Design management education at the Delft Seymour Roworth-Stokes design education (62-68) University of Technology Jorge Frascara Democratizing innovation Jan Buijs Eric von Hippel cc‘…one of the largest design schools in the The etymology of design: Pre-Socratic world, with more than 1,800 full-time perspective (69-78) The user innovation revolution students…’, Kostas Terzidis Charles Leadbeater, Mike Press Designing the MBA of tomorrow Designing a new world: Modernism at the V The Design Journal: 10:1 Sandra Shield & A (79-85) Winter, 2007 cc‘At the University of Richmond’s Robins Harriet Atkinson issn: 1460-6925 web link School of Business, the MBA curriculum Exhibit reviews Diversification, design, strategic planning has added two new courses, one on Massive change: The future of global and new product development: A jewelry design management and the other on design (86-92) industry knowledge transfer partnership creativity and innovation…’ Lauren Weinberg G. Penfold Catastrophe chic: A commentary (93-97) Julie Wosk Continued p. 11 Q

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Educating designers for broad roles in Teaching business design , 28:5 organizations Giovanni Lanzone September, 2007 Chris Conley cc To students at Milan’s Domus Academy, issn: 0142-694x web link cc‘There is an increasing understanding in Made in Italy is more than a label-it’s a business today that design talent can be design philosophy…’ Capturing and analysing own design put to good use not just in the design activity (463-483) Tracking major trends in design manage- department but in marketing, strategy, Owain Pedgley ment studies c product management, and research.…’ c‘The selection of tools for capturing and Yu-Jin Kim, Kyung-Won analyzing own design activity’; issues with Educating a nation: The Swedish national cc‘…a look at design management trends design activity as data and validity of design program over the past two decades as seen in the self-report/analysis Ulla Johansson Design Management Institute’s two major cc‘From 2003 to 2005, the Swedish periodicals.’ Diagnosing the creativity of designers: government invested about $9 million in a Individual feedback within mass higher Design Philosophy Papers, 2 design program…’ education (485-497) 2007 Karl K. Jeffries Foolproof design management education ISSN 1448-7136 web link cc‘The application of online creativity Efstathios G. Kefallonitis The forgotten project in new urbanism. diagnostics to deliver individual feedback Launching the dual degree: Creating Christian Witt-Dörring and guidance’ business-savvy designers Philippe d’Anjou & Glenn Weiss Less is more original? (499-512) Jeremy Alexis, Zia Hassan cc‘The concept of a project in design Ann Heylighen, Paula Deiszb, Ilse M. disciplines … can be defined’ as: ‘the Learning to Work in Teams Verstijnen artefactual project’ and ‘the existential c Christopher Vice c‘The fundamental implications’ of the project’ cc‘…business processes have moved from a choice between ‘deliberately developing linear hierarchical progression to what Topography of vacancy one design solution’ or searching ‘for could be called collaborative parallel Kim Steele multiple alternatives before selecting one’ processing’ KK ‘Urban vacant lot’ reclamation ‘as a site for Toward a framework of product develop- regeneration across local, neighborhood Managing complexity: The executive MBA ment for global markets: A user-value- and city scales’ at the Zollverein School based approach (513-533) Andrej Kupetz, Martin Mangold, Miriam Redirective practice in action: Boonah Two Suzan Boztepe c Selbeck Tony Fry, Jim Gall c‘Product development for global markets’; cc… a process of designing a city’; ‘practically ‘a conceptual framework… to assist… in Managing the business of design advance redirective practice’; ‘a method evaluating ‘existing products,’ ‘planning Christina Onesirosan-Martinez for transforming how and what we design’ local research,’ ‘product localization and cc As the [design] sector finally moves away standardization’ from implementation design toward From peri-urban to unknown territory strategic design,’… ‘those who operate in Anne-Marie Willis Evaluating spaciousness in static and it will need better business skills and cc‘A symptomatic reading … of ‘peri-urban,’ dynamic media (535-557) training.’ exploring the … difficult-to-define Arthur E. Stamps III K transformation it names’ K Two studies on ‘(a) which physical TED: multidisciplinary team projects properties of environments influence crossing university borders impressions of spaciousness? and (b) Lisbeth Svengren Holm does it make a difference?’ cc‘…design and business students are rarely confronted with a situation in which they represent one discipline and work with others in shared projects...’

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Information Design Journal, 15:3 Artists becoming teachers: Expressions of Visual art as a vehicle for educational 2007 identity transformation in a virtual forum research (314-324) Special Issue: Discourse, (264-273) Richard Hickman Cognition and Communication Jeff Adams KK Pilot project ‘to help art & design teachers issn: 0142-5471 web link KK Analysing ‘expressive, ‘confessional’ in training use their … strengths to report forum posts to investigating ‘art and on classroom observation through visual Discourse cohesion in text and tutorial design graduate identities as they embark art’ dialogue upon their training as teachers’ Arthur C. Graesser, Moongee Jeon, Yan Yan, The evaluation of community arts projects Zhiqiang Cai Towards a theory that links experience in and the problems with social impact the arts with the acquisition of knowledge methodology (325-335) Problems in the Field (274-284) Paul Clements Linguistics markers of coherence improve Ylva Dahlman KK Evaluating ‘participatory community arts text comprehension in functional contexts KK Investigating the benefits of offering programmes’; analyzes ‘the shift in Ted Sanders, Jentine Land, Gerben Mulder Graphic Arts and Design courses ‘for educational emphasis from aesthetic to Interview students of natural and social sciences’ social outcomes’; ‘a range of theoretical models and practices’ Using structural cues to guide readers on Aesthetics, popular visual culture, and the internet designer capitalism (285-295) Can the process of transition for incoming Jan Spyridakis, Kathryn A. Mobrand, Elisabeth Paul Duncum secondary pupils be supported through a Cuddihy, Carolyn Y. Wei cc‘An ordinary-language definition of creative art project? (336-334) Research Challenges aesthetics as visual appearance and Lyn Matthews Reading aloud and the delay of feedback: effect… enables art education to … KK Using ‘a modified curriculum’ to ‘support Explanations for the effectiveness of reader address the realities of … life under the pupil’s transformation through a protocols designer capitalism’ visual arts creative learning framework’ Leo Lentz, Henk Pander Maat A stitch in time: Gender issues explored Black history month and African Caribbean International Journal of Art and through contemporary textiles practice in a student learning in art (345-353) Design Education sixth form college (296-307) Paul Dash c 26:3, October 2007 Wendy Hyde c‘Black History Month and its implications issn: 1476-8062 0260-9991 web link cc‘How a conceptual approach to working … for teaching and learning in art & design can act as a vehicle for moving students education’ Winter art education project (238-250) toward becoming self-motivated artists’ Timo Jokela International Journal of Design: cc‘Winter art as a method of environmental Creating new identities in design education 1:2 August 2007 issn: 1991-3761 web link and community-based art education’ at (308-313) Hannah Rose Mendoza, Claudia Bernasconi, the University of Lapland in Finland Privacy in the United States: Some Nora M. MacDonald implications for design Electronic paint: Understanding children’s KK ‘An interdisciplinary approach to design;’ Christena Nippert-Eng representation through their interactions exposing ‘students to design methodology cc Conceptualizing privacy; ‘drawing on the with digital paint (251-263) common to design professions’ John Matthews, Peter Seow work of U.S. scholars as well as an cc‘How the introduction of electronic, digital, ethnographic study’ interactive devices’ (i.e. stylus-driven tablet PCs) affects ‘children’s development in semiotic understanding’

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Imagining the Orient: Cultural appropria- Factors affecting learning in technology in An electronic engineering curriculum tion in the Florence Broadhurst collection the early years at school (253-269) design based on concept-mapping Vicki Karaminas Brent Mawson techniques (341-356) KK A case study of Florence Broadhurst and cc‘A longitudinal ethnographic study of the S. L. Toral, M. R. Martínez-Torres, F. Barrero, The Broadhurst Collection; ‘issues of progression in technological literacy of 20 S. Gallardo, M. J. Durán cross-cultural experience, cultural children during their first 3 years at cc‘A empirical exploratory research study of awareness, social responsibility’ school;’ factors that affect learning and the application of Concept-Mapping technological literacy Techniques to the design of the Electronic Metaphors in design problem solving: Engineering Degree at the University of Implications for creativity Effective technology and design teaching: Seville, Spain’ Hernan Pablo Casakin Getting it right in the classroom (271-290) KK Assesing ‘metaphor use by students in Victor McNair, Robin B. Clarke Journal of Design History: 20:2 design problem solving with a particular cc‘How three case studies of technology and Summer 2007: focus on design creativity’ design teaching were used to identify’ and Special Issue: Design and Polity evaluate ‘a range of teaching and learning Under and After the Ottoman Product analysis based on Botswana’s strategies’ Empire postcolonial socio-cultural perspective issn: 0952-4649 web link Richie Moalosi, Vesna Popovic, Anne Technical education in Scotland: Fit for Hickling-Hudson purpose? (291-304) A ship sailing east with its voyagers KK An experimental study analyzing ‘products Brian Canavan, Robert Doherty travelling west: Architectural saints, city made in Botswana and identifying the KK Analyzing ‘an online survey of 95 fathers and design patrons in the late underlying socio-cultural factors that practising teachers;’ ‘an investigation of Ottoman Empire (93-108) influenced their design’ employers’ entrance requirements for Zeynep Aygen apprenticeships in engineering and cc‘The bipolarity of the architectural design Transforming Taiwan Aboriginal cultural construction’ discourse between the existing traditions features into modern product design: a and new approaches introduced by case study of a cross-cultural product The individual vs. the group? modernization’ design model Individualization and collectivity among Rung-Tai Lin students in collaborative design (305-321) Perspective and Istanbul, the capital of the KK Exploring ‘the meaning of cultural objects Tomas Hellström Ottoman Empire (109-130) from Taiwan’s aboriginal cultures’ and KK ‘An interview approach;’ … the dynamic Emel Ardaman extracting ‘their cultural features’ relationship of how individuals relate to cc‘Why the radial plan scheme did not the group ‘plays out among design become an more important element in the User value: Competing theories and students in a collaborative design modernization process of Istanbul’; models situation’ comparing ‘Ottoman and Western Suzan Boztepe European understandings of the world’ KK ‘A critical overview of the theories of value’ Learning elemental structures and dynamic in multiple disciplines processes in technological systems: A Reshaping the Balkans in the first two cognitive framework (323-340) centuries: The case of Serbia (131-144) International Journal of M. Barak, P. Williams Bratislav Pantelic Technology and Design Education cc‘Some elemental structures to cc‘Using representative samples to examine 17:3 September 2007 issn: 0957-7572 web link technological feedback control systems’; how national uniqueness has been ‘highlights the relationship between the visualized in the past’; ‘how changing Practical modelling and hypothesis testing structural nature and the dynamic perceptions of ‘national’ or ‘ethnic’ in primary design and technology educa- behavior of these systems’ designs have accompanied identity tion (233-251) changes’ Eric Parkinson KK Exploring ‘relationships between designing and making in the work of children within the age range 5-11 when engaged in practical modelling tasks’ Continued p. 14 Q

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Metamorphoses of Formalism: National Exhibiting modernity through the lens of A methodology for the preservation of the identity as a recurrent theme of design in tradition in Gilbert Rohde’s design for architectural heritage of Senneville, Greece (145-159) living interior (227-242) Quebec, Canada (359-373) Artemis Yagou Monica Obniski Avi Friedman cc‘The long-term obsession with Greekness cc‘The Century of Progress International KK Surveying Senneville and preparing has limited many design endeavours Exposition’; negotiating ‘the divide ‘architectural guidelines for its within the realm of formalism’ between the conservatism of the preservation’ Depression and the lure of modern design’ Book reviews Design-led regeneration? Evaluating the Historicizing lifestyle: Mediating taste, Craft, souvenirs and the commodification design outcomes of Cardiff Bay and their consumption and identity from the 1900s of national identity in 1970s’ Scotland implications for future regeneration and to the 1970s (173-175) (243-257) design (375-405) Grace Lees-Maffei Andrea Peach John Punter KK Exploring ‘the relationship between craft, KK The use of design-led regeneration in The modern period room, the construction national identity and the souvenir in 1970 Cardiff and Cardiff Bay of the exhibited interior from 1870 to 1950. Scotland’ Penny Sparke, Brenda Martin and Trevor The part and the whole: implementing Keeble (175-177) Reviews: masterplans in Glasgow’s New Gorbals Stella Beddoe Art, design & architecture in central Europe (407-433) 1890–1920. Elizabeth Clegg (259-262) Steve Tiesdell, Garry MacFarlane Sleeping around: The bed from antiquity to John McKean KK ‘Exploring the ‘mechanics’ of masterplans’; now. Annie Carlano and Bobbie Sumberg ‘the relationship between process and (177-178) Architecture and tourism in Italian colonial outcome’ Irene Cieraad Libya: An ambivalent modernism. Brian L. McLaren (262-265) Town centre management and regenera- The furniture machine, furniture since 1990. Tom Avermaete tion: The experience in four English cities Gareth Williams (178-179) (435-459) Sancha Briffa Household gods, the British and their Noriko Otsuka, Alan Reeve possessions. Deborah Cohen (265-267) Journal of Design History: 20:3 cc‘The distinctive roles played by Town Monica Brewis Autumn 2007 Centre Management’ in four contrasting issn: 0952-4649 web link Fashion for the people: A history of town centers clothing at Marks and Spencer. Rachel Sèvres porcelain and the articulation of Innovation in urban design: Does research Worth (267-268) imperial identity in Napoleonic France help? (461-473) Laura Ugolini (183-204) Ann Forsyth Steven Adams Josef Hoffmann: Interiors, 1902–1913. cc‘How innovation intersects with (1) urban KK Examining the new ‘repertoire of subjects Christian Witt-Dörring (ed.) (268-270) design practice and (2) the work of and forms with specific reference to the Claire I. R. O’Mahony research universities’ Service de l’Empereur’ of Sèvres porcelain Journal of Urban Design: 12:3 during Napoléon’s administration October 2007 Rhetorics of display: Arts and crafts and art issn: 1357-4809 web link nouveau at the Turin Exhibition of 1902 McMansions: The extent and regulation of (205-225) super-sized houses (339-358) Morna O’neill Jack L. Nasar, Jennifer S. Evans-Cowley, KK The ‘form of the display mediated the Vicente Mantero meaning of decorative objects’; the ‘type cc‘The presence and extent of McMansion of display reaffirmed the pre-eminent houses’ and the regulations cities have status of the consumer’ adopted ‘to control their development’

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Book Reviews Windows and mirrors: Interaction design, Meg Deasley; Katherine Champion; digital art and the myth of transparency. Mahyar Arefi; Brian Goodey; Piet J. Jay David Bolter and Diane Gromala Emerging Trends Korteweg; Alexander Cuthbert; Paul Knox; Sharon Poggenpohl Mark C. Childs; Wolfgang Sonne; John Flint in Visble Language: 41:2 2007 Design Research Visible Language 41:1 issn: 0022-2224 web link 2007 11-15 November, 2007 issn: 0022-2224 web link Designing Philosophy (101-126) David Sless Design of a rich—prospect browsing Hong Kong Polytechnic cc‘…the practice of designing and doing interface for seniors: A qualitative study of philosophy are merging, opening up image similarity clustering (4-22) University exciting new possibilities’ Stan Ruecker, Lisa M. given, Andrea Ruskin, Heather Simpson The homogenized imagery of non-profit Interdisciplinary, bi-annual confer- cc‘…inclusive design delivery through organizations on the internet (127-161) ence including architects, communi- interface design, with a particular focus on Linda Jean Kenix cation, environmental, interior, and access to healthcare resources for seniors. cc‘…the relationship between the type of product designers who resonate to advocacy group and the visual imagery the themes of collaboration, creativity, Visible language for the expression of used for self-representation’ culture, emotion, history, interaction, scientific concepts (23-49) methods, perception, sustainability, Mike Zender, Keith A. Krutcher Relating the visual and the headline in teaching, technology, and user behav- c c‘…the possibility of developing a visual Chinese print advertisements (163-189) iour with an interest in how research language to represent concepts from a Lawrence Chun-wai Yu can improve professional performance c multitude of published papers in an c‘…the relationship between the visual and and advance knowledge in design. accurate display that is highly condensed, the headline in 1,562 Chinese print yet readable in seconds.’ advertisements Keynote speakers include: Binding the electronic book: Design ccKees Dorst features for bibliophiles (50-69) University of Technology, Australia Stan Ruecker and Kirsten C. Uszkalo ccKun-Pyo Lee cc‘…a design for the electronic book based Korea Advanced Institute of Science on discussions with frequent book readers’ and Technology, South Korea ccLarry Leifer Alphabet ante portas: How English text , USA invades Japanese public spaces (70-87) ccSteven Kyffin Peter Backhaus Philips, The Netherlands c c‘…the ambivalent nature of English loan ccHenry Steiner words plays a key role in the ever growing Steiner&Co, Hong Kong visibility of English in Japanese public ccSurya Vanka spaces.’ Microsoft, USA Book Reviews: Else/where: Mapping new cartographies of Sponsors: networks and territories. Janet Abrams and eeDesign Research Society Peter Hall, eds. eeJapanese Society for the Science of Sharon Poggenpohl Design eeKorea Society of Design Science Thoughtful interactive design: a Design perspective on information technology. Jonas Lowgren and Erik Stolterman http://www.sd.polyu.edu.hk/iasdr Sharon Poggenpohl

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