The article addresses the criterion of rigor in the context of practice-based design. The authors propose to examine the problem of rigor in design research as illustrative of the more general problem of whether design ...

It is the claim of this paper that the judgement and classification of a work as research is a judgement that is made by the audience and is an issue of its reception, rather than being determined by the intention of the ...

This paper discusses perception of the designed object and how our knowledge impacts on our visual perception of that designed object. It is however challenging to describe what this entails because what is being said at ...

In this paper, we set out to investigate the nature, role and purpose of the research exhibition. The idea of the research exhibition was put forward some time ago with a paper by Rust and Robertson (2003) who have considered ...

In 1930, Otto Neurath observed that graphic symbols could become a language with defined meanings that could be learned. In the case of English graphic symbols, people could easily learn to understand them. At first, there ...

In The Reflective Practitioner (1991), Schön describes an iterative process of question-forming and solution-finding. One of the judgements that the practitioner makes is whether a solution ‘works’. This concept is not ...

This paper addresses the newly named phenomenon of ‘rescue supervision’. The phenomenon itself is unfortunately not new. Not every candidate is blessed with adequate doctoral supervision. This paper looks at some of the ...

Wittgenstein developed what has become known as "the picture theory of meaning" in his Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. This has been widely interpreted as a comparison between the way in which an engineering drawing is ...