Nigel Cross’s scientific contributions

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Designerly Ways of Knowing
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January 2016

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Nigel Cross

Design: Critical and Primary Sources brings together 100 essential texts on design from the mid 19th century to the present day, covering key thinkers, movements and issues for design. The four volumes focus on: 1) Design Reform, Modernism and Modernization 2) Professional Practice and Design Theories 3) Social Interactions 4) Development, Globalization and Sustainability Each volume features an editorial introduction and articles are grouped into thematic sections within the volume.

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... Examples of recent housing projects are presented later. Cross (2006) contrasted normative design methods founded on linear and prescriptive modelsproblem identification, analysis, synthesis, and evaluationcommonly used in research and practice, with what he called "designerly ways of knowing". This concept applies what Polanyi (1969) called "knowing-in-practice". ...

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Trans disciplinary architectures: reconnecting theories, research and practices
Designerly Ways of Knowing
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