Leadership to Elevate Design at Scale: balancing conflicting imperatives

Little is known about how design leaders foster design excellence “at scale” within large organizations. To bridge this gap, this article reports on interviews with 59 senior design leaders. Using a paradox perspective to frame the findings uncovers major challenges when leading design teams inside large organizations. It also identifies five...

Biomimetic Strategies in Tower Design: Towards the integration of tower subsystems

The paper argues that the tower needs to respond to its environment by changing from a closed building typology towards a heterogeneous, differentiated open system that can adapt to the changing conditions within and around it. This argument is supported by focusing on the analogies and principles of specific biological examples in order to...

A generalisation of J2-flow theory for polar continua

Integration of plasticity equations for singular yield functions