CCT204H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Janine Benyus, Papercutting, Vanishing Point
6 Jun 2018
School
Department
Course
Professor
CCT204 Design Thinking
Dr. Ann Donar
Wednesday, June 6, 2018
Agenda
● Other design perspectives
○ Design paradigms
○ Cultural hybridization
○ Values-based design
○ Expressive causality
○ Biomimicry
● In-class assignment (and group activity, time permitting)
● More on A2 and examples from previous years
○ Flow charts
Design Paradigms (paradigm - existing framework; how design has been done)
● Each design paradigm exemplifies a distinct method of solving a problem
● Each embodies a fundamental design strategy
● Design paradigms become a framework for explaining the workings of natural and
designed objects
● Can be applied to all types of design problems
○ E.g. nesting objects-within-similar object
Examples
● Simple Shapes: Ball, spiral, geodesic (a dome made of triangular surfaces), oar,
corrugation, sheet, disc, coil
● Enclosure: Skin, bubble, capsule, bag, cup, net, wrap, cave, coating
● Bending and Flexing: Hinge, elbow, ball and socket, Gumby, flexstraw (ex. bus)
● Bigger and Smaller: Expansion/contraction, extension ladder, swelling/squashing
● Binary objects relations (two parts): Siamese twins (ex. pipes), lock & key, sexual
connections (positive or negative), identical twins (two of the same)
● Attaching: Glue, adhesive tape, tacks, magnet, suction cup, clips/clamps
● Passages: Pipe, filter, bridge, umbilical cord, wire, gateway
● Objects within objects: Russian dolls (ex. packaging), peas in a pod, reversible jacket
● Multi-function objects (many functions): Computer, Swiss Army Knife, convertible sofa
Cultural Integration/hybridization (mixture of two cultures, similar to bisociation)
● Cultural integration/hybridization as a design method
○ “Cultural integration concerns the hybridization of a particular culture with the
contemporary Western or “global” culture that forms a kind of artificial
acculturation of the particular and the universal. However, the key issue is the
choice of cultural elements.
○ Culture - music, food, background, university student, faculty, corporate,
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Document Summary
More on a2 and examples from previous years. Design paradigms (paradigm - existing framework; how design has been done) Each design paradigm exemplifies a distinct method of solving a problem. Design paradigms become a framework for explaining the workings of natural and designed objects. Can be applied to all types of design problems. Simple shapes: ball, spiral, geodesic (a dome made of triangular surfaces), oar, corrugation, sheet, disc, coil. Enclosure: skin, bubble, capsule, bag, cup, net, wrap, cave, coating. Bending and flexing: hinge, elbow, ball and socket, gumby, flexstraw (ex. bus) Bigger and smaller: expansion/contraction, extension ladder, swelling/squashing. Binary objects relations (two parts): siamese twins (ex. pipes), lock & key, sexual connections (positive or negative), identical twins (two of the same) Attaching: glue, adhesive tape, tacks, magnet, suction cup, clips/clamps. Passages: pipe, filter, bridge, umbilical cord, wire, gateway. Objects within objects: russian dolls (ex. packaging), peas in a pod, reversible jacket.
