Readings

Here are links to readings for the CMU School of Architecture design thinking seminar, fall 2011  (You will need a password to access password-protected PDF files. Some links may require that you are on the CMU campus or use a VPN proxy.)

Week Ten On Design Spaces

Mary Shaw  The Role of Design Spaces in Software Design.

Mary Shaw “Prospects for an Engineering Discipline of Software” (20 years ago)

Week Nine

Michael Petry: “When art meets craft”  from “The Art of Not Making: The New Artist/Artisan Relationship” (Thames & Hudson)

Penelope Dean: “Never mind all that environmental rubbish” Architectural Design (AD): Volume 79, Issue 3, pages 24–29, May/June 2009 (special issue on energies)

Week Eight

Suguru Ishizaki: Toward a Unified Theory of Visual-Verbal Strategies in Communication Design

Rudolf Arnheim: Visual Thinking (chapters 1 and 2, and/or others)

Barbara Tversky: What does drawing say about thinking? (5 pp)

Week Seven

Eric von Hippel: Democratizing Innovation (chapter 1) (17 pp) – the entire book is free for download.

Week Six

Steven Dow: How Prototyping Practices Affect Results (6 pp)

Steven Dow: Prototyping Dynamics: Sharing Multiple Designs Improves Exploration,  Group Rapport, and Results (10 pp)

Week Five

Herb Simon: The Science of Design (16pp)

Week FOUR:

no “Required Readings”

Week THREE: On Studying Design and Designers

Christopher Alexander: On the Need for Rationality (10 pp)

Nigel Cross: Expertise in Design (15 pp)

Bryan Lawson: How Designers Think (introduction) (8 pp)

Nigan Bayazit: Investigating Design (14 pp)

Week TWO: Engineers on Design Thinking

Pier Luigi Nervi:  On Design Process (6 pp)

Gordon Glegg:  Introduction to “The Design of Design” (3 pp)

Gordon Glegg: The Design of the Designer (8 pp)

Henry Petroski: Engineering as Hypothesis (7 pp)

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Week ONE “Design Thinking?”

IDEO CEO Tim Brown’s Harvard Business Review Design Thinking article…

Horst Rittel’s The Reasoning of Designers

Horst Rittel’s Dilemmas in a General Theory of Planning

Hugh Dubberly and Chanpory Rith on “Why Horst W.J. Rittel Matters”