1st Edition
Designology Studies on Planning for Action
The more complex a human action is, the greater the need to formulate a plan of action, devise a method of implementation, and evaluate its execution. Such preparation is called design or planning, and can be defined as a conceptual preparation for action. Design and planning by themselves are so complex and important that they need informed preparation, which calls for systematic designological studies.
This volume brings together original contributions of researchers and practitioners in design theory, design research, and design studies. Its main purpose is to highlight the possibilities of the discipline of designology. Doing and thinking, or thinking and doing, whatever the order, are intertwined. That is why praxiology, the science of action, defines design as a conceptual preparation of action.
Included here are contributions from Jack Brzezinski, Eduardo Corte-Real, Nigel Cross, Michel Faucheux, Joelle Forest, Wojciech W. Gasparski, Ioannes B. Kapelouzos, Thorbjoern Mann, Tom Maver, Tarkko Oksala, Tufan Orel, Sevil Saryldz, and Ladislav Tondl. Designology is the latest volume in Transaction's highly regarded Praxiology series.
Editorial, Wojciech W. Gasparski
Introduction, Tufan Orel
Part One: Designological Ideas
Designology: Toward a Unifi ed Science on Design
Revisited, Wojciech W. Gasparski
On the Science of Design or "Designology"
Revisited, Tufan Orel
Francisco d'Hollanda's "Sciencia do Desegno" Early Modern Designology,
Eduardo Corte-Real
Designology and Technology,
Michel Faucheux and Joelle Forest
Refl ective Conceptions on Design: Understanding Design between Esthetics and Poetics,
Tarkko Oksala
Part Two: Design as Human Action
New Tasks and Functions of Technological Designing,
Ladislav Tondl
Strategic Thinking in Design Practice,
Nigel Cross
Argumentative Planning and Policy-Making Discourse with Argument Evaluation,
Thorbjoern Mann
The Impact of Information Technology in Architecture Design,
Tom Maver
Part Three: Domains of Application
Is Architectural Design a Science?,
Sevil Saryldz
Modeling Software Systems,
Jack Brzezinski
The Design of Jurisprudence on Environmental Protection and Sustainability by the Hellenic Supreme Administrative
Court and Its Relation to the Classical Greek Value System,
Ioannes B. Kapelouzos
Notes about the Authors
Biography
Wojciech W. Gasparski, Tufan Orel
