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- Provides readers with solid background and context to understand the phenomenon of design cognition
- Helps designers recognize their design style, understand their personal style, and comprehend how it is uniquely generated from their own design processes
- Helps researchers to gain insight regarding the influence of cognition on style and creativity, and the relationships between style and creative output
Part of the book series: Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics (SAPERE, volume 17)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Conceptual Framework
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Creativity
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Front Matter
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Style and Creativity
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Back Matter
About this book
This book looks at causative reasons behind creative acts and stylistic expressions. It explores how creativity is initiated by design cognition and explains relationships between style and creativity. The book establishes a new cognitive theory of style and creativity in design and provides designers with insights into their own cognitive processes and styles of thinking, supporting a better understanding of the qualities present in their own design.
An explanation of the nature of design cognition begins this work, with a look at how design knowledge is formulated, developed, structured and utilized, and how this utilization triggers style and creativity. The author goes on to review historical studies of style, considering a series of psychological experiments relating to the operational definition, degree, measurement, and creation of style. The work conceptually summarizes the recognition of individual style in products, as well as the creation of such styles as a process before reviewing studies on creativity from various disciplines, presenting case studies and reviewing works by master architects.
Readers will discover how creativity is initiated by design cognition. A summary of the correlations between creativity and style, expressed as a conceptual formula describing the cognitive phenomenon of style and creativity concludes the work. The ideas presented here are applicable to all design fields, allowing designers to comprehend and improve their design processes to produce creative, stylistically unique products.
Authors and Affiliations
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Architecture Department, Iowa State University, Ames, USA
Chiu-Shui Chan
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Style and Creativity in Design
Authors: Chiu-Shui Chan
Series Title: Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14017-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-14016-2Published: 25 March 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-38379-8Published: 09 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-14017-9Published: 09 March 2015
Series ISSN: 2192-6255
Series E-ISSN: 2192-6263
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 331
Number of Illustrations: 64 b/w illustrations, 58 illustrations in colour
Topics: Engineering Design, Industrial Design, Cognitive Psychology, Aesthetics, Architectural History and Theory