Design Does/Does Not Solve Problems

Title: Design Does/Does Not Solve Problems
Creator: Roxburgh, Mark
Relation: Textile Design Theory in the Making p. 173-186
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350061590.0024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Resource Type: book chapter
Date: 2021
Description: The conception of design as a problem-solving activity, and the allied and now populist concept of design thinking, has a rich history as evidenced in the fairly extensive body of literature that deals with it. While I might in turn deal with some of that history and literature, if only to point towards it, my key objective in this chapter is to consider a different conception of design activity. Conceptions about what design is or does, needless to say, we call theory, a term that carries with it the often-pompous weight of earnest and rigorous intellectual endeavour over an extended period of time and conducted by many people. But let’s be clear about the notion of theory, or theories, that attend to something like design for they are not the same as the kind of theories that attend to something like science.
Subject: design; history and literature; scientific theories; theory
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1438531
Identifier: uon:40638
Identifier: ISBN:97813500615691350061565
Language: eng

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