Between thought and object in engineering design

✍ Scribed by Louis L. Bucciarelli

• Book ID: 104288964
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 70 KB
• Volume: 23
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0142-694X
• DOI: 10.1016/s0142-694x(01)00035-7

✦ Synopsis

If one accepts that engineering design is the business of a collective or team and that different participants, with different competencies, responsibilities and interest 'see' the object of design differently, then the question arises: how do they harmonize their claims and proposals throughout the course of design? For that matter, how does any one participant, working alone, exercising his or her expertise, transform ideas of function into plans which ultimately fix the form and structure of the product? We explore the possibility of extending the scope of language to include artifacts of process -sketches, bits and pieces of hardware -to see how they might serve to bridge thought and object.