TY - JOUR
T1 - Activity Theory as a means for multi-scale analysis of the engineering design process: A protocol study of design in practice
AU - Cash, Philip
AU - Hicks, Ben
AU - Culley, Steve
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - This paper contributes to improving our understanding of design activity.
Specifically the paper uses Activity Theory to enable a multi-scale analysis of
the activity of three engineering designers over a period of one month.
Correspondingly, this paper represents the first work that explicitly investigates
design activity across different scales, referred to as macro-, meso- and microscales.
In addition to establishing the range of activities and tasks that occur at,
and constitute, each scale the underlying relationships between the scales of
activity are discussed. Further, the paper elucidates the wider implications of the
proposed framework and its findings for both design research and practice.
Central to these implications is the articulation of design as a complex fabric of
interwoven processes.
© 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
AB - This paper contributes to improving our understanding of design activity.
Specifically the paper uses Activity Theory to enable a multi-scale analysis of
the activity of three engineering designers over a period of one month.
Correspondingly, this paper represents the first work that explicitly investigates
design activity across different scales, referred to as macro-, meso- and microscales.
In addition to establishing the range of activities and tasks that occur at,
and constitute, each scale the underlying relationships between the scales of
activity are discussed. Further, the paper elucidates the wider implications of the
proposed framework and its findings for both design research and practice.
Central to these implications is the articulation of design as a complex fabric of
interwoven processes.
© 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
UR - https://orbit.dtu.dk/en/publications/cc40fdea-e895-458a-ac59-5f2af4c9c18b
U2 - 10.1016/j.destud.2015.02.001
DO - 10.1016/j.destud.2015.02.001
M3 - Article
SN - 0142-694X
JO - Design Studies
JF - Design Studies
ER -