Abstract

This paper brings attention to the chronological developments in a strand of design research that aimed at demystifying the characteristics and nature of design through what will be argued to have been predominantly a representationalist framework. It discusses how the uncritical acceptance and combination of some of the concepts that have come to be attributed to design (design as an ill-structured, reflective-in-action and ambiguous activity) can contribute to a rather narrow understanding of design- one which reduces the temporal-cultural fluidity of design in how design(ing) is conceptualised; and how the role and intrinsic properties of the frameworks that are used to study design themselves are overlooked in the concepts that are subsequently attributed to the nature of design. The paper maps the research paradigms and core concepts pertinent to this line of design research against a classification of cognition theories in providing a critique of its framing of design knowledge.

摘要

本文关注一系列设计研究中的时间顺序发展，旨在通过将被认为主要是代表性的框架来揭开设计的特征和性质的神秘面纱。它讨论了不加批判地接受和组合一些被认为是设计的概念（设计是一种结构不良、在行动中反思和模棱两可的活动）如何有助于对设计的狭隘理解——在设计概念化的过程中减少设计的时间文化流动性；以及用于研究设计本身的框架的作用和内在属性如何在随后归因于设计性质的概念中被忽视。