The generative dance of design inquiry: Exploring Dewey's pragmatism for design research

In design research, the activities of design and research coalesce. It introduces thorny epistemological challenges and Dewey's pattern of inquiry is explored for its relevance for design research. First, a logical framework for design inquiry is developed that enables to reach warranted conclusions, retrospectively. Second, a temporal...

Towards controlled innovation of complex objects.: A sociotechnical approach to describing ship design

Within the ship design industry, and in particular in the development of large, complex and innovative vessels experienced ship designers play an important role in organizing and structuring the design process. How this actually happens within projects that develop such large, complex and innovative vessels for a single client is not clear....

Towards a different view on ship design: The development of ships observed through a social?technological perspective

The research this paper reports on aims to develop a design and engineering strategy for complex ships in between incremental and radical innovation. The majority of European ship-design industry concentrates on the development of complex, one-off ‘specials’ for the offshore industry, like dredgers, drill ships, pipelaying ships, et cetera. This...

Improved models in the design of complex specials: Success or failure?

The European Maritime cluster remains a very important player in the design, production and operation of Complex Specials, but under pressure of competitors in the Far East both the design and the design approach has to 5e improved to maintain its maricet position. The problem of any new method is that it should comply with boundary conditions...

Concept Generation during the Design-Exploration Phase