Philosophy and Design: From Engineering to Architecture

✍ Scribed by P.E. Vermaas, P.A. Kroes, Andrew Light, Steven Moore

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 349
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This volume provides the reader with an integrated overview of state-of-the-art research in philosophy and ethics of design in engineering and architecture. It contains twenty-five essays that focus on engineering designing in its traditional sense, on designing in novel engineering domains, and on architectural and environmental designing. This volume enables the reader to overcome the traditional separation between engineering designing and architectural designing.

✦ Table of Contents

1402065906......Page 1
Contents......Page 5
List of Contributors......Page 8
Design in Engineering and Architecture: Towards an Integrated Philosophical Understanding......Page 13
Part I: Engineering Design......Page 30
Design, Use, and the Physical and Intentional Aspects of Technical Artifacts......Page 31
Designing is the Construction of Use Plans......Page 46
The Designer Fallacy and Technological Imagination......Page 59
Technological Design as an Evolutionary Process......Page 68
Deciding on Ethical Issues in Engineering Design......Page 83
Morality in Design: Design Ethics and the Morality of Technological Artifacts......Page 96
Thinking about Design: Critical Theory of Technology and the Design Process......Page 109
Design Culture and Acceptable Risk......Page 123
Alienability, Rivalry, and Exclusion Cost: Three Institutional Factors for Design......Page 135
Part II: Emerging Engineering Design......Page 145
Friends by Design: A Design Philosophy for Personal Robotics Technology......Page 146
Beyond Engineering: Software Design as Bridge over the Culture/Technology Dichotomy......Page 161
Technology Naturalized: A Challenge to Design for the Human Scale......Page 174
Re-Designing Humankind: The Rise of Cyborgs, a Desirable Goal?......Page 186
Designing People: A Post-Human Future?......Page 197
Redesigning Man?......Page 208
Design: Structure, Process, and Function: A Systems Methodology Perspective......Page 216
Co-Designing Social Systems by Designing Technical Artifacts: A Conceptual Approach......Page 231
Beyond Inevitability: Emphasizing the Role of Intention and Ethical Responsibility in Engineering Design......Page 244
Design and Responsibility: The Interdependence of Natural, Artifactual, and Human Systems......Page 255
Part III: Architectural Design......Page 266
Form and Process in the Transformation of the Architect's Role in Society......Page 267
Expert Culture, Representation, and Public Choice: Architectural Renderings as the Editing of Reality......Page 280
Diverse Designing: Sorting Out Function and Intention in Artifacts......Page 294
Design Criteria in Architecture......Page 309
Cities, Aesthetics, and Human Community: Some Thoughts on the Limits of Design......Page 320
Nature, Aesthetic Values, and Urban Design: Building the Natural City......Page 331
C......Page 345
E......Page 346
L......Page 347
R......Page 348
Z......Page 349