The Design of Material, Organism, and Minds: Different Understandings of Design

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Design is eminent throughout different disciplines of science, engineering, humanities, and art. However, within these disciplines, the way in which the term design is understood and applied differs significantly. There still is a profound lack of interdisciplinary research on this issue. The same term is not even guaranteed to carry the same meaning as soon as one crosses over to other disciplines. Therefore, related synergies between disciplines remain largely unexplored and unexploited.This book will address design in the hope of promoting a deeper understanding of it across various disciplines, and to support Design Science as a discipline, which attempts to cover the vast number of currently isolated knowledge sources. Front Matter....Pages i-xv Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Why Is Design Important?....Pages 3-18 Front Matter....Pages 20-20 Product Design: The Design of the Environment and the Surroundings....Pages 21-27 MINI: Empathetic Design for the Future....Pages 29-38 The Design and Development of Computer Games....Pages 39-51 Drug Design: Designer Drugs....Pages 53-63 Making Matters: Materials, Shape and Function....Pages 65-83 Front Matter....Pages 86-86 The Theory of Dialogical Design....Pages 87-93 ETH Future Cities Simulation Platform....Pages 95-108 Iterative Landscapes....Pages 109-115 Front Matter....Pages 118-118 Applied Virtuality....Pages 119-130 Text Design: Design Principles for Texts....Pages 131-141 Synesthetic Design of Music Visualization Based on Examples from the Sound-Color-Space Project....Pages 143-153 Back Matter....Pages 155-156