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Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Form Beyond Function
T2 - practice-based research in objects, environment and meaning
AU - Walker, Stuart
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - This paper presents an overview of practiced-based researchconducted over the last four years that explores new directions in productdesign. The research addresses the challenges of sustainability, includinglocalisation of design and production, as well as substantive values anddeeper, enduring understandings of human meaning. The approach iterativelycombines scholarly inquiry, reasoned argument and the development oftheory with speculative explorations to create tangible design propositions thatboth inform and exemplify the theoretical concepts. These propositionalobjects, together with the theoretical and philosophical ideas that informedtheir development, are an example of creative ‘academic-practice’. Thedirection taken recognises that the proliferation of product functionality viamicroprocessor-based technologies effectively frees ‘form’ to address otherareas of significance – taking form beyond function to express deeper humanmeanings.
AB - This paper presents an overview of practiced-based researchconducted over the last four years that explores new directions in productdesign. The research addresses the challenges of sustainability, includinglocalisation of design and production, as well as substantive values anddeeper, enduring understandings of human meaning. The approach iterativelycombines scholarly inquiry, reasoned argument and the development oftheory with speculative explorations to create tangible design propositions thatboth inform and exemplify the theoretical concepts. These propositionalobjects, together with the theoretical and philosophical ideas that informedtheir development, are an example of creative ‘academic-practice’. Thedirection taken recognises that the proliferation of product functionality viamicroprocessor-based technologies effectively frees ‘form’ to address otherareas of significance – taking form beyond function to express deeper humanmeanings.
KW - research-through-design
KW - design
KW - practice-based research
KW - sustainability
KW - product design
KW - spiritual values
KW - substantive values
KW - form beyond function
KW - form follows meaning
KW - quadruple bottom line
KW - triple bottom line
KW - localisation
U2 - 10.1504/IJSDES.2011.043289
DO - 10.1504/IJSDES.2011.043289
M3 - Journal article
VL - 1
SP - 335
EP - 347
JO - International Journal of Sustainable Design
JF - International Journal of Sustainable Design
SN - 1743-8292
IS - 4
ER -