Towards A Universal Design Theory

Grabowski, Hans; Lossack, Ralf-Stefan; El-Mejbri, El-Fathi

doi:10.1007/978-94-017-1901-8_2

Cited by 27 publications

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“…Among these theories, which outline the current framework of design practice, a significant number is composed of problem-solving strategies that include abstraction processes (Lee, Pries-Heje, and Baskerville 2011). This part of the process aims at considering the design problem with a different perspective through its formalisation into theoretical models: Universal Design Theory (Grabowski, Lossack, and El-Mejbri 1999), Synectics (Gordon 1961), TRIZ (Altshuller 1984), etc. Once modelized, the given set of constraints and objectives are compared with those of solved cases from the same or other scopes of practice.…”

Section: Modern Design Challengesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Biomimetics, where are the biologists?

Graeff

Maranzana

Aoussat

2019

Journal of Engineering Design

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Engineering design, as the science framing the practice of design through the elaboration of tools and processes, is constantly evolving towards new innovative strategies. To thrive in their extremely competitive environment, it appears that both industrial and natural worlds are highly dependent on innovation, optimisation and selection. These commonalities have led designers to look to living beings for inspiration. This innovation strategy, referred to as biomimetics, isn't a new approach but its methodological aspects are still under development. This article deals with biologists' contribution throughout the biomimetic design process. After introducing the context and the experimental protocol, we investigated the impact of possessing a background in biology during the practice of biomimetics and compared our findings with experts' opinion. The main idea of this article is to show that to forego the integration of biologists is highly restrictive and may be one of the reasons explaining the difficulties of implementing biomimetics in the industrial context. Hence, this article argues for a new methodological framework taking into account biologists, allowing biomimetic teams to become truly interdisciplinary.

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Section: Modern Design Challengesmentioning

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Biomimetics, where are the biologists?

Graeff

Maranzana

Aoussat

2019

Journal of Engineering Design

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“…Among these theories, which draw the current frame of design practice, a significant number is composed of problem-solving strategies that include abstraction processes (Lee et al, 2011). This part of the process aims at allowing engineers to take a step back and consider the situation with a different perspective through its formalization into models : Universal Design Theory (Grabowski et al, 1999), Synectics (Gordon, 1961), TRIZ (Altshuller, 1984), etc. Once modelized, the given set of constraints and objectives are compared with those of solved cases from the same or other scopes of practice.…”

Section: Modern Design Challengesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Role of Biologists in Biomimetic Design Processes: Preliminary Results

Graeff¹,

Maranzana²,

Aoussat³

2018

Proceedings of the DESIGN 2018 15th International Design Conference

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Although biomimetic design practice becomes more and more common, some methodological aspects are still under development. More especially, this article aims at dealing with biologist's role and integration during the design process and its construction. After an introduction of the context and the protocol of our experiment on a case study about the insulation of containers housing, our preliminary results will be presented. Through the use of the biomimetic tool AskNature, we will wonder about the differences between the approach of biomimetic processes by students in biology or engineering.

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“…This enables comparison of different process models, even if they use differing terminologies or notations. Efforts towards unifying models of the design process (Grabowski et al, 1998) may benefit from this work. Integrating function and behavior in a process ontology adds semantics to process representations, which accounts for their applicability in a purposive context.…”

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A function–behavior–structure ontology of processes

Gero

Kannengiesser

2007

AIEDAM

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This paper presents how the function-behavior-structure (FBS) ontology can be used to represent processes despite its original focus on representing objects. The FBS ontology provides a uniform framework for classifying processes, and includes higher level semantics in their representation. We show that this ontology supports a situated view of processes based on a model of three interacting worlds. The situated FBS framework is then used to describe the situated design of processes.

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Towards A Universal Design Theory

Cited by 27 publications

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Biomimetics, where are the biologists?

Biomimetics, where are the biologists?

Role of Biologists in Biomimetic Design Processes: Preliminary Results

A function–behavior–structure ontology of processes

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