Publication Series G
University of Art and Design Helsinki
2007

Cumulus conference Crossing boundaries
Transfer into/within/from design
14-17 June 2007
Schwäbisch Gmünd, Germany
Hosted by Hochschule für Gestaltung Schwäbisch Gmünd

Editor in chief
Eija Salmi
Secretary General

Editors
Peter Stebbing
George Burden
Lotta Anusionwu

isbn 978-951-558-244-7 (paperback)
isbn 978-951-558-245-4 (pdf)
issn 1456-307x (paperback)
issn 1795-1879 (pdf)
Dark Oy
Vantaa 2007

PDF VERSION
WP_SchGmuend 18_07

CONTENTS

9 Yrjö Sotamaa
Foreword Crossing Boundaries – Sharing the global knowledge and the global responsibility
10 Christian Guellerin
Foreword This Network Is Easy to Access and Easy to Be Part of… And nowadays within our complex world, simplicity is a revolutionary trend
7 Peter Stebbing and George Burden
Educate and Design to the Extent of the Available Knowledge

KEYNOTE ABSTRACTS

11 Ellen Wagner
Learning by Design
12 Jan Teunen
A Patch of Cloud – About fragmentation and wholeness
12 Christian Berg
Networking as a Syndrome – Impacts of a global trend and implications for design
13 Hans Peter Meinzer
The Inside View – Looking inside Seeing inside
13 Ortwin Renn
Sustainable Development: The Need for a Synthesis of Analysis, Meaning, and Design
14 Manfred Spitzer
Neuroscience and Creativity
14 Joachim Krausse
Nature Has No Departments – Remembering Buckminster Fuller’s “comprehensive anticipatory design science”
15 Joyce Palmer

KEYNOYE SPEECH The Eternal Triangle
FULL PAPERS

CONVERGING DIVERGENCES

21 Jess Maertterer
The Mathematics of Aesthetics

BIONICS

29 Barbara Colombo
Biomimetic Design for New Technological Developments

MEASURING HUMAN FACTORS

37 Ulrich Matern
Safety, Hazards and Ergonomics in the Operating Room – Needs and
challenges for design
41 Sean D. Jenkins, Raymond D.H. Brown and Kelvin E. Donne
Infrared Thermography in Design Research – The application of thermal
imaging as a measurement tool in the design process

COOPERATIVE CONSUMERISM

48 Catalina Naranjo and Carolina Gill
Towards Sustainable Design: Lessons from Developing Countries
52 Nathalie Ciprian and Frédéric Degouzon
Building up a Sustainable Design CREDO – A possible framework for an experimental “project grounded” design community

LEARNING AND TEACHING

56 Konrad Baumann and Peter Purgathofer
How Designers Teach – A qualitative research on design didactics
64 Ian Damerell
New Divisions (Mind your Language) – Multimodality in visual education
69 Martti Raevaara and Jan Kenneth Weckman
Interlinking Studio and VLE – New ways for international collaboration in art and design education

COMPREHENSIVE STRATEGIES

74 Robert Barelkowski
Unique Spaces: Interdisciplinary Contributions in Architectural Design Process – Involving the fields of art and design, social sciences and economy in mixed-use developments
84 Mirja Leinss
The Role of Designers in Multidisciplinary Teams – Experiences from design research
89 Carolina Gill and Blaine Lilly
Communicating across Disciplines through Systems Thinking
94 Loredana Di Lucchio
Design Tactics – The transition in the design focus from the object to the subject

UNEXPECTED CONNECTIONS

101 Götz Wintergerst and Ron Jagodzinski
haptICS: A Collaborative Research Project Led by the HfG Schwäbisch Gmünd
106 Séverine Rouillan and Frédéric Lagarrigue
Between Dance and Design – The gesture as a creative support for a European design

CULTURAL CONCERNS

114 Heike Goeller
Designing for Different Cultures, a Designer’s Predicament?

CLASSIC IDENTITIES

123 Erika Cortés
What Contemporary Life Brings into Design – From a peripheral perspective

POSTERS

128 Yanta H.T. LAM
The Industrial Design Development in Hong Kong (HK) and the Influence on China (PRC)
129 Birgitte Geert Jensen
User Centered Design in Public Transportation
129 Katri Ristal
The Story of How Estonian Academy of Arts Created Design Innovation Centre and Became the Leading Design Body in Estonia
130 Mirja Leinss and Enrico Constanza
Telling a Story on a Tag – The importance of markers’ visual design for real world applications
131 Daniel Aeschbacher
BionicDesignProtocol© – The Method for Best Sustainable Design – An integral approach for an effective new design development

STUDENTS

132 Rhys Thomas and Sean Jenkins
Inclusive Design
133 Richard Crocker and Ian Walsh
Biomimetic Design: Design Inspired by Biomorphics and Biomimetics
133 Andrew Langdon and Ian Walsh
Sustainability
134 Richard Heale and Ross Head
Express Yourself!
134 Harriet Brewster and Tyra Oseng
The Role of Women in Design
135 Liyan Wei and Ren Xianyi
Chinese Elements Cannot Save China’s Industrial Design
136 Elly Dawson and Matthew Archer
The Transfer of History into Design