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Architecture, Design and Conservation Danish Portal for Artistic and Scientific Research Aarhus School of Architecture // Design School Kolding // Royal Danish Academy CEPHAD 2010 // The borderland between philosophy and design research Galle, Per; Hove, Helle Publication date: 2010 Document Version: Publisher's PDF, also known as Version of record Link to publication Citation for pulished version (APA): Galle, P., & Hove, H. (Eds.) (2010). CEPHAD 2010 // The borderland between philosophy and design research: Regular table sessions & master class sessions of the CEPHAD 2010 Conference // Copenhagen // January 26th – 29th, 2010. 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Oct. 2021 CEPHAD 2010 // The border- land between philosophy and design research Regular table sessions & master class sessions of the CEPHAD 2010 Conference // Copenhagen // January 26th – 29th, 2010 CEPHAD // Centre for Philosophy and Design ISBN 87-985478-6-0 Copenhagen Working Papers on Design // 2010 // No. 1 1 Strandboulevarden 47 Tel +45 35 27 75 00 DK- 2100 Copenhagen Ø Fax +45 35 77 76 00 Denmark [email protected] Copenhagen Working Papers on Design // 2010 // No 1 Contents The Danish Design School Press // About Copenhagen Working Papers on Design…….. 5 Per Galle // Editorial: On the art of skipping to the main points……………………………… 7 Regular table sessions Sabine Ammon // Dynamics of Architectural Design……………………………………..….. 11 Robert Andruchow // Approaches to definition and resolving definitional disputes in design…………………………………………………………………..……. 19 Greg Bamford (1) // Disembodied Design and Selection: Problems for Analogies between Organisms and Artifacts………………………..… 21 Greg Bamford (2) // Design, Function and Use in Artifacts: Problems for Bio-Artifact Modelling……………………………………………….....… 25 Helena Barbosa // What is a poster? ……………………………………………..……...…… 27 Rolfe Bart // Creative laboratories and the philosophy of cultural knowledge……..……… 29 Matteo Bianchin & Ann Heylighen // The case for deliberative design………………..…… 31 Tom Bieling // Disabled by Design – Enabled by Disability……………………………..…... 33 Christin Bolewski // Detour Over China - Chinese Philosophy and Aesthetics applied to Western Digital Art…………………………………………………….….…. 35 Stefano Borgo, Massimiliano Carrara, Pawel Garbacz, Pieter E. Vermaas // The design and the designer stance…………………………………………….….…. 39 Kristina Börjesson // Meaning: Making sense also of non-sense…………………….….…. 41 Jose Luis Casamayor // Industrial design, industrial design engineering and design engineering: Different perspectives of a PhD in design…………………..…. 47 Ian Coxon // From the meta-physical to the physical: Reuniting existential and hermeneutical phenomenology in design………………………………………... 53 Rafael De Clercq // Functional beauty and looking fit………………………………….......... 57 Megan Delehanty // Visual evidence…………………………………………………..………. 59 Clive Dilnot (1) // Affirmation as Critique/Critique as Affirmation………………………........ 63 Clive Dilnot (2)// Thinking the condition of being and acting in an artificial world—and the role of design within it…………………………………………..…..… 65 Clive Dilnot (3) // Two legacies of ignorance, or why we find understanding things so difficult……………………………………………..……….… 67 Mads Nygaard Folkmann // Design and Possibility……………………………...…..………. 69 Björn Franke // Design as Ethical and Moral Inquiry………………………………..……….. 71 Michail Galanakis // Trespassing Design and Social Research: the Methodology of Sincerity……………………………………………………………. 73 Rumiko Handa // Ruins in Nineteenth-Century Romanticism: A Case of Hermeneutical Distanciation……………………………………………….. 75 Young Bok Hong // Rethinking everyday experience through design……………………… 83 Wybo Houkes // Analysing the Evolution Revolution in Design Or: How philosophy helps to sniff out false promises and untapped potential………… 85 1/2 Copenhagen Working Papers on Design // 2010 // No. 1 Strandboulevarden 47 Tel +45 35 27 75 00 DK- 2100 Copenhagen Ø Fax +45 35 77 76 00 Denmark [email protected] 3 Martina Maria Keitsch & Dr. Veronika Reichl // Visual Philosophy: An approach towards interpreting and mediating philosophical ideas through visualization……. 89 Michael D. Kirchhoff // Pressing Agency Beyond the Flesh: Three Programmatic Arguments Grounding the Notion of Material Agency…….... 91 Flavia Loscialpo // Fashion and Philosophical Deconstruction: a Fashion In-Deconstruction………………………………………………………....... 97 Anja M Maier // A meta-model for communication in engineering design…………….…... 99 Ben Matthews // Can we measure emotions for design?.................................................. 101 Michael May // Beyond Affordances – Why direct perception is not enough in design engineering………………………………………………………… 105 Kathryn Moore // Overlooking the visual…………………………………………………….. 111 Julia Moszkowicz // Phenomenology and Graphic Design Criticism: a re-evaluation of historical precedents in the age of Slow Design………………. 113 Mogens Myrup Andreasen // Design Research Consolidation as a Design Society Crusade…………………………………………………………….. 115 Balder Onarheim, Stefan Wiltschnig // Framing between openness and rigidity – the role of design requirements in creative design…………………………………. 119 Keith Owens // Design Responsibility? A Duty to Whom or What and Why……………... 121 Fátima Pombo // The blank meaning of objects. Towards an aesthetics of design…..… 123 Ofra Rechter // Design and the Significant Object………………………………………..… 129 Craig Titus // Designing Ethics Curriculum: Teaching and Assessing Moral Decision Making in a Service-Learning Design Course……..… 131 Jacob C T Voorthuis // Design and the Concept of Justice……...………………………… 133 Master class sesssions: Tariq Andersen, Jonas Moll & Troels Mønsted // Philosophical issues when design meets research………………………………………………………………….. 137 Trine Brun Petersen // Design Governs our Behavior……………………………….……… 141 Layda Gongora // Understand the Impact of Explicit Design Space Representations on Innovative Design………………………………………….………………………... 143 Helle Hove // How can the design researcher inquire into aesthetic subjects?................. 149 Malene Leerberg // The analyst’s dilemma on doing research in design process and sketching in particular……………………………………………………………... 151 Mehran Madani // Social Conurbation, an ageless journey by elder generation……..….. 153 Ilse Oosterlaken // Applying Sen’s capability approach to technological artifacts & engineering design – accounting for human diversity…………...……………….…. 159 Terri Peters // The Philosophy of Ecological Architecture……….…………………….….… 161 Angelos Psilopoulos // Architecture of Gesture; Signification, Identity and Meaning in the architecture of the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris…….……..… 165 Michael J L Sadd // The migration of form ... visualising the emergent artefact………….. 169 Suchitra Sheth // The place of drawing in design education: A view from India…..……… 173 Julijonas Urbonas // Gravitational Aesthetics.................................................................... 175 2/2 Copenhagen Working Papers on Design // 2010 // No. 1 Strandboulevarden 47 Tel +45 35 27 75 00 DK- 2100 Copenhagen Ø Fax +45 35 77 76 00 Denmark [email protected] 5 Strandboulevarden 47 Tel +45 35 27 75 00 DK- 2100 Copenhagen Ø Fax +45 35 77 76 00 Denmark [email protected] About Copenhagen Working Papers on Design The Danish Design School Press // Strandboulevarden 47 // DK–2100 Copenhagen Ø // Denmark Copenhagen Working Papers on Design is published at varying intervals by The Danish Design School. As a member of The Danish Centre for Design Research in Copenhagen, one aim of The Danish Design School is to stimulate and contribute to design research and create a public awareness of its results. For this purpose, Copenhagen Working Papers on Design serves as a channel of quick and informal dissemination of results from design research related to The Danish Design School; in particular early work and work in progress. (For a complete record of research under the auspices of The Danish Centre for Design Research, please consult the READ database: http://www.re-ad.dk/front.do.) Furthermore, Copenhagen Working Papers on Design occasionally features high-quality non-research papers that aim at informing future design research, or making work undertaken at The Danish Design School accessible to a wider audience. General Editors Nina Lynge // Research Coordinator // The Danish Design School. Per Galle // Associate Professor // The Danish Design School. Editors of the current issue Helle Hove // Research Assistant // The Danish Design School. Per Galle // Associate Professor // The Danish Design School. Printing & Binding The Danish Design School // Printing Centre Back Issues Issues from 2006 // no. 1 and onwards are available online as pdf files, at http://www.dkds.dk/Forskning/Publikationer/Copenhagen_workingpapers_on_design.
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