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The Future of Transdisciplinary Design

Proceedings of the Workshop on “The Future of Transdisciplinary Design”, University of Luxembourg 2013

  • Presents the state of the art research in the field of transdisciplinary design; a process involving the integrated use of knowledge, methods and tools from various disciplines
  • Highlights the challenges and the issues from the perspectives of processes, people and products in transdisciplinary product design and development
  • Acts as a reference concerning the developing field of transdisciplinary design, describing the existing situation as well as the future perspectives and possibilities

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Table of contents (18 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
  2. Transdisciplinary Design Approaches

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Opening up Design Methodology

      • Kilian Gericke, Sebastian Adolphy, Ahmed Jawad Qureshi, Lucienne Blessing, Rainer Stark
      Pages 3-14
    3. Design as a Common Denominator

      • Tatjana Leblanc
      Pages 15-26
    4. Ineffective Collaboration in Multi-Disciplinary Teams

      • Angela Fernandez-Orviz
      Pages 27-38
  3. Modelling, Representing and Managing Information in Transdisciplinary Design

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 39-39
    2. Visually Augmented Analysis of Socio-Technical Networks in Engineering Systems Design Research

      • M. Štorga, T. Stanković, P. Cash, T. C. McAloone
      Pages 55-67
    3. Selecting Models from Biology and Technical Product Development for Biomimetic Transfer

      • Helena Hashemi Farzaneh, Maria Katharina Kaiser, Udo Lindemann
      Pages 69-82
  4. Transdisciplinary Design Approaches

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 83-83
    2. Play and Transdisciplinary Understanding

      • Poul Kyvsgaard Hansen, Ade Mabogunje, Morten Lund, Louise Møller Nielsen
      Pages 85-97
    3. The Elusive Character of Design Ideas

      • Marc Tassoul, Petra Badke-Schaub
      Pages 99-112
  5. Tools and Methods in Transdisciplinary Design

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 125-125
    2. The Benefits of an Enhanced Design Methodology Applied to Innovative Product Development

      • Philippe Blanchard, Hervé Christofol, Simon Richir
      Pages 127-137
    3. Transdisciplinary Research—Buildings as Service-Oriented Product-Service Systems

      • Cyril Mauger, Jean-Yves Dantan, Ali Siadat, Eric Dubois, Sylvain Kubicki
      Pages 139-151
  6. Management and Collaboration in Transdisciplinary Design

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 165-165

About this book

This book presents the state-of-the-art research in the field of transdisciplinary design, and highlights the challenges and issues from the perspectives of processes, people and products in transdisciplinary product design and development. It collates research papers resulting from the ‘Workshop on the Future of Transdisciplinary Design’ written by leading researchers in engineering design and product development. The papers provide examples and case studies from existing practices, as well as future perspectives towards the development of the complex and ever-changing domains of engineering design and product development, with an emphasis on transdisciplinarity.

 ‘The Future of Transdisciplinary Design’ contains a selection of research papers in the following areas related to transdisciplinary design:

 -Approaches

-Tools and methods

-Management and collaboration

-Distributed and culturally diverse teams

-Modeling, representing and managing information

-Education and training

 A transdisciplinary design process is a design process involving the integrated use of knowledge, methods and tools from various disciplines. Design of product/services increasingly requires cross-disciplinary collaboration, and integration of specialized knowledge from different disciplines is necessary to tackle complex and large scale design problems. This book provides a valuable reference to researchers, professionals and PhD students in the field of engineering design and product development. Design practitioners and those involved in product development in the manufacturing industry will equally benefit from the research presented as well as future advances in this research.

 

Editors and Affiliations

  • Universite du Luxembourg, Walferdange, Luxembourg

    Lucienne Blessing

  • Universite du Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Luxembourg

    Ahmed Jawad Qureshi

  • University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Luxembourg

    Kilian Gericke

About the editors

Lucienne T.M. Blessing, Co-Director, SUTD-MIT International Design Center (IDC), Professor, Engineering and Product Development Pillar. Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD)


Lucienne studied in Delft (MSc) and Twente (PhD), was lecturer at University of Twente (Netherlands);Senior Research Associate at Cambridge University Engineering Design Centre;  Vice-president for Research and International Relations and Professorin Engineering Design and Methodology at Technical University Berlin; vice-president for Research and  Professor in Engineering Design and Methodology at University of Luxembourg; interim Director of University of the Greater Region (a consortium of 6 universities in Germany, France, Belgium and Luxembourg).
Lucienne has 30 years of teaching experience in product development and design research, supervised over 30 PhD students, was Editor-in-Chief (Europe) of Research in Engineering Design (Springer), translated Pahl and Beitz’ Engineering Design with Ken Wallace, and co-founded the Design Society and served on its Management and Advisory Boards for 18 years.


Research interests: Empirical studies into design;Design theory, methods and methodologies; System design; User experience; Design research methodology, Transdisciplinarity. 


Ahmed Qureshi, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Alberta


Ahmed is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Alberta and leads the Additive Design and Manufacturing Systems (ADaMS) Lab. He holds a Master and Ph.D. in engineering design from Arts et MetiersParisTech, France. His research interests include additive manufacturing, product design, engineering design, engineering education, design for X, design optimization, and manufacturing systems design. Ahmed has been actively involved in research in engineering design education and has been involved in a number of initiatives of program restructuring, curriculum, and course development, and improving the student learning experience in a rapidly evolving technical higher education industry through the use of cross-disciplinary tools and technologies.
Ahmed’s expertise lies in the area of design and development of metal, polymer, and polymer composite additive manufacturing (AM) systems, AM for microfluidics, and design and manufacturing systems automation.His research has made a number of breakthrough improvements in the area of additive manufacturing systems design, specifically in the area of next-generation material jetting for engineered functional materials, design of ferromagnetic composite materials for 3D printing, and development of Ni-WC metal-ceramic 3D printing materials and manufacturing systems for Canadian Oil sands, and robotic wire-fed arc-based 3D printing systems.
Qureshi is also an ambassador for technology in engineering education as well as the extended reality (XR) for the Cognitive Projections initiative of the Faculty of Rehabilitation at the University of Alberta.


Kilian Gericke, Professor, Chair of Product Development, University of Rostock, Germany


Kilian is a design researcher with a background in mechanical engineering. He studied Mechanical Engineering in Berlin, Germany. From 2010 until 2019 he worked at the University of Luxembourg in the engineering design and methodology group. Since April 2019 he holds the chair of Product Development at the University of Rostock, Germany.
Kilian’s research is in the area of product development with a focus on design methodology and design process management, i.e. design process planning, design process improvement, and systematic support of designers (design methods, guidelines, design principles) during the early stages of product development with a particular interest in function modelling.
He is interested in the effects of new concepts such as Product Service Systems (PSS), Cyber Physical Systems, and of new manufacturing technologies such as Additive Manufacturing (3D printing) on the design process and in the development of new design methods that support designers in this context.
He is co-editor of the book “Pahl/Beitz Engineering Design” and co-author of the revised VDI 2221 guideline.


Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Future of Transdisciplinary Design

  • Book Subtitle: Proceedings of the Workshop on “The Future of Transdisciplinary Design”, University of Luxembourg 2013

  • Editors: Lucienne Blessing, Ahmed Jawad Qureshi, Kilian Gericke

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06382-9

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-06381-2Published: 05 January 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-06382-9Published: 04 January 2021

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 245

  • Number of Illustrations: 22 b/w illustrations, 26 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Engineering Design, Operations Management, Industrial and Production Engineering

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