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IS GLOBALISED DESIGN EDUCATION KILLING DESIGN VARIETY?
Hall, Ashley // 2017
Design is an agent of globalization affecting socio-cultural evolution through technology impact, and in return, globalization is generating new demands and forces that shape both design and design ...
Is it sustainable? A conceptual exposition of sustainability in technical artefacts
Hay, Laura; Duffy, Alex // 2017
Design is increasingly viewed as a key driver of global sustainability improvement. Accordingly, a range of sustainability-oriented design approaches have emerged over the past decades, all sharing ...
Is product design evil?
Coutts, Euan Ross; Edward, Jack; Knight, Richard; Duffy, Alex; Grierson, Hilary // 2017
Product design presents an ethical dilemma. Despite increasing awareness of limited resources the majority of product design endeavours contribute to unsustainable over-consumption. Is the product ...
Is this system eco-innovative? A case-based workshop
Vallet, Flore; Tyl, Benjamin; Pialot, Olivier; Millet, Dominique // 2017
Eco-innovation is a challenging topic for companies that are expected to promote the design of products and services for a sustainable society. Early phases of eco-innovation processes and more ...
Knowledge management and eco-innovation: Issues and organizational challenges to small and medium enterprises
Cherifi, Ahmed; Gardoni, Mickaël; M'Bassègue, Patrick; Renaud, Jean; Houssin, Rémy // 2017
the generation of new knowledge. To help SMEs in the development of their product, we propose a methodological approach that will allow to respect eco-innovative goal. As a starting point, a ...
Life cycle development - A closer look at strategies and challenges for integrated life cycle planning and upgrading of complex systems
Cudok, Anja; Huth, Tobias; Inkermann, David; Vietor, Thomas // 2017
operties over the whole life cycle. Several disciplines are involved to plan, design and implement the product life cycle. This contribution states that current modelling approaches are mostly driven ...
Measuring frugality - application to a solar water distiller
Rohmer, Serge; Merabtine, Abdelatif; Bouzidi, Youcef // 2017
This paper explores the concept of frugality to help designers in optimizing the resources needed for the design of products. A metric proposes to integrate the geographical origin of the components ...
mecPro˛ - A holistic concept for the model-based development of cybertronic systems
Eigner, Martin; Dickopf, Thomas; Schneider, Marc; Schulte, Tim // 2017
While today's products are increasingly developing into high-tech products in the meaning of Industrie 4.0, Internet of Things or Industrial Internet, the processes, methods and concepts for the ...
Methodology for multiple life cycles product ecodesign
Troussier, Nadege; Sirina, Natalia; Adragna, Pierre-Antoine; Amaya, Jorge; Reyes, Tatiana // 2017
Knowing how to design new production systems in order to better address sustainable development is a major stake. In this framework, designing new value networks that imply new products should ...
Mindfulness and resource-sensitive design: A literature overview and an agenda for research
Chan, Wing Mui Helen; de Bont, Cees // 2017
Mindfulness has aroused great interests in the past few decades and researches on mindfulness conducted have suggested that it is related to increase in awareness, creativity, quality ...
MORPHOLOGY TO ILLUSTRATE THE MENTAL MODEL OF A DESIGN TEAM’S PROCESS
Zeiler, Wim // 2017
The need for nearly zero energy and environmentally sustainable buildings introduced further complexity in the design process of buildings. This calls for a holistic integral design approach with the ...
Need network analysis: A process to understand the stakeholder need structure in multi-actor service systems
Pahk, Yoonyee; Baek, Joon Sang // 2017
The network analysis and the need matrix can be used together to investigate the relationships of different stakeholders formed by the needs they have towards one another in a multi-actor system. We ...
On the interplay between platform concept development and production maintenance
Bokrantz, Jon; Landahl, Jonas; Levandowski, Christoffer; Skoogh, Anders; Johannesson, Hans; Isaksson, Ola // 2017
To meet a broad customer-base, platforms can be used to achieve commonality and distinctiveness among a family of products. However, producibility of product variants are typically not ensured until ...
OSLC based approach for product appearance structuring
Ebeling, René; Eigner, Martin // 2017
Within early phases of a product lifecycle, a lack of process connections between CAD design, product appearance configuration as well as virtual reality and other visualisation scenarios can still ...
Process integrated product concretisation: Extending conceptual design with function focus by processual product design
Mattmann, Ilyas; Kloberdanz, Hermann; Kirchner, Eckhard // 2017
Existing development approaches usually focus on the product function as the starting point of development activities, since function fulfilment is the main carrier to ensure stakeholder satisfaction ...
Process model for change management in the system of chassis-mounted parts of commercial vehicles
Stocker, Johannes Michael; Thoma, Christoph; Schmidt, Michael; Kreimeyer, Matthias; Lienkamp, Markus // 2017
Due to the high amount of interrelations, such as spatial dependencies, material exchange, energy transfer and information flow, the chassis-mounted parts, located between the axles of a commercial ...
Product sustainability assessment in conceptualisation phase
Martinez, Victor Gerardo // 2017
Along the design process many decisions and compromises are made in order to reach a final design solution. In literature is commonly accepted that tackling sustainability issues at early stages ...
Providing a conducive environment to integrate design and production: Assessing the potentials of university-based fablabs (Ub-Fablabs)
Botleng, Vomaranda; Brunel, Stéphane; Girard, Philippe // 2017
While design plays an important role in economic growth, the unanticipated high output of wastes during a product’s lifecycle puts to question the current practice of design and production. According ...
REDESIGN OF GARMENTS IN GENERAL EDUCATION: A PATH TO REDUCED CONSUMPTION
Orheim, Monica Schlanbusch; Nielsen, Liv Merete // 2017
Mass consumption in Western societies poses a great threat to the global climate. How do we change attitudes towards mass consumption so that the next generation does not inherit an unfortunate ...
RELATING TO THE INDIVIDUAL'S LEVEL OF CONSUMPTION - AN INDICATOR OF ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT
Řvrebekk, Nikolai; Skjerven, Astrid // 2017
Today’s talk of sustainability is difficult to understand for the general public, designers and decision makers in industry and the public sector. CO2 equivalence is one of the most important ways to ...
RESCUED BY DESIGN: ENABLING LOW-RESOURCE COMMUNITIES TO REDUCE GLOBAL DROWNING
Powell, John; Underwood, Gary // 2017
In recent years Bournemouth University (BU) has witnessed a growth in undergraduate projects aimed at resolving problems in low-resource communities, with an emphasis on sustainability through the ...
Structuring information in technical inheritance with PDM systems
Scheidel, Wieben; Mozgova, Iryna; Lachmayer, Roland // 2017
Nowadays a product development process is often based on experience and collected product lifecycle information. The communication between machines and equipment and a consistency throughout the ...
STUDENT DESIGN PROJECTS SET IN THE SPACE ENVIRONMENT
Ledsome, Colin // 2017
In the coming decades, the rapidly growing interest in space exploration and exploitation will require designers who have some understanding of the challenges to be faced in the space environment. ...
Supporting development teams in the early stages of product development through DfX-based knowledge management system and communication platform
Ugurlu, Sinan; Gerhard, Detlef // 2017
In the product development, many aspects such as usability, safety, ergonomics, and recycling have to be taken into account. Development companies are required to make more robust and accurate ...
Boolean Searches
The following examples demonstrate some search strings that use boolean operators:
- design community
Find rows that contain at least one of the two words. - +design +community
Find rows that contain both words. - +design community
Find rows that contain the word “design”, but rank rows higher if they also contain “community”. - +design -community
Find rows that contain the word “design” but not “community”. - +design ~community
Find rows that contain the word “design”, but if the row also contains the word “community”, rate it lower than if row does not. - +design +(>community <decisions)
Find rows that contain the words “design” and “community”, or “design” and “decisions” (in any order), but rank “design community” higher than “design decisions” - design*
Find rows that contain words such as “design”, “designs”, “designing”, or “designer”. - "some words"
Find rows that contain the exact phrase “some words” (for example, rows that contain “some words of wisdom” but not “some noise words”). Note that the " characters that enclose the phrase are operator characters that delimit the phrase. They are not the quotation marks that enclose the search string itself.