CCT204H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Design Paradigm, Suction Cup, Umbilical Cord
21 Jun 2018
School
Department
Course
Professor
CCT204H5F - DESIGN THINKING I (SUMMER 2018)
University of Toronto Mississauga | Sheridan College
Professor Ann Donor
LECTURE NOTES
Notes by Jonathan Ho
Week 5 Lecture 9: Other Design Approaches/Perspectives (June 4, 2018)
Design Paradigms
Each design paradigm exemplifies a distinct method of solving a problem
●Each embodies a fundamental design strategy
●Become a framework for explaining the workings of natural and designed objects
●Can be applied to all types of design problems
Examples
●Simple Shapes
Ball, spiral, geodesic, oar, corrugation, sheet, disc, coil
●Enclosure
Skin, bubble, capsule, bag, cup, net, wrap, cave, coating
●Bending and Flexing
Binge, elbow, ball and socket, Gumby, flexstraw
●Bigger and smaller
Expansion/contraction, extension ladder, swelling/squashing
●Binary object relations
Siamese twins, lock and key, sexual connections, identical twins
●Attaching
Glue, adhesive tape, tacks, magnet, suction cup, clips/clamps
●Passages
pipe, filter, bridge, umbilical cord, wire, gateway
●Objects within objects
Russian dolls, peas in a pod, reversible jacket, file directories (on computer)
●Multi-function objects
Computer, Swiss Army Knife, convertible sofa
Cultural Integration/Hybridization
Hybrid - Mixture of two things; similar to bisociation.
"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."
White Collar Crime - Office setting crimes; committed by those in a higher work level (ie. tax fraud,
embezzlement etc.)
