... the project within the highly transdisciplinary research landscape of the period, which is argued to be significantly due to the constructivist epistemology widely adopted across disciplines. Design/methodology/approach The paper mainly benefits from methods of architectural history, specifically archival...

...Fragkoulis Papagiannis; Patrizia Gazzola; David Slavata; Daniele Grechi Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present an innovative approach for the strategic design of public–private partnerships (PPP) and private finance initiatives (PFI) based on ontology. Design/methodology/approach...

... control since the mid-twentieth century, as reflected in a shift in rhetoric that accompanied the extension from first- to second-order cybernetics. Narratives of exploration that have emerged from NASA’s lunar programme and recent design cybernetics are juxtaposed to show a transition away from...

..., 2008). The discourse has emphasized the centrality of life’s meaning in a world shared with others, but it has focused on analyzing rather than designing a meaningful world. Through its collaboration with the sciences, phenomenology has received considerably more attention than it would otherwise have...

...Markus Schwaninger Purpose This study aims to explore an exemplar of the design and application of a systemic framework for higher education. The field of application is in the social sciences and the perspective long-term, covering three generations of faculty and many generations of students...

... their assumptions, test their capabilities and permit exceptional personal/professional growth. Design Education Culture Pedagogy Systems Holism I seek strength, not to be greater than my brother, but to fight my greatest enemy, Myself. Make me always ready to come to you with clean hands...

...Ben Sweeting Ben Sweeting can be contacted at: R.B.Sweeting@brighton.ac.uk One way of building connections from design to ethics is via cybernetics. In the past decade, there has been increasing interest in cybernetics among designers and in design among cyberneticians. The connection...

... facilitates communication between different parties (e.g. Web designers and programmers) (Xin et al., 1998). Information systems Creativity Adaptation Design Behaviour Feedback Recommender systems or recommendation systems (RSs) have been widely used to search and suggest...

... and system implementation of mobile ERP until recently. The purpose of this paper is to propose a mobile ERP framework for the sales function in an ERP system. The authors also design a mobile type sales application based on an android-based mobile device. In addition, the authors provide sale practitioners...

...Philip Baron, Professor Ranulph Glanville, Professor David Griffiths and Dr Ben Sweeting; Michael Hohl Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to learn from successful educational frameworks how to inform a possible framework for design education that includes ecological literacy, systems thinking...

...Philip Baron, Professor Ranulph Glanville, Professor David Griffiths and Dr Ben Sweeting; Ben Sweeting Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore ways in which cybernetics leads to distinctiveways of acting. Design/methodology/approach – Paralleling von Foerster’s argument...

... argues that these new media artworks employ a cybernetic narrative via modes of “circularity,” “feedback,” and “perception.” Design/methodology/approach – This paper offers a theoretical approach to new media art and cybernetics in order to analyze three select works. Since the works mentioned have...

... as typically found in science-based disciplines, and a second, exploration and speculation-focussed approach typically found in design-related contexts. These two approaches to CA are linked to first-order cybernetics and second-order cybernetics, respectively. Design/methodology/approach – The author...

...Philip Baron, Professor Ranulph Glanville, Professor David Griffiths and Dr Ben Sweeting; Mateus van Stralen Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate possibilities for a more intersubjective digital design process that amplifies the potential for novelty to arise. Design...

...Daniel J. Adriaenssen; Jon-Arild Johannessen Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to make a small contribution to reflections on general methodology, not specific methods, in social science. Design/methodology/approach – Systemic methodology. Findings – First, schematic typology...

...Ching-Ho Yen; Heng Ma; Chi-Huang Yeh; Chia-Hao Chang Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to develop an economic model, which could determine the acceptance sampling plan that minimizes the quality cost for batch manufacturing. Design/methodology/approach – The authors propose a variable...

...Ranulph Glanville; David Griffiths; Philip Baron; Ted Krueger Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to propose a novel classification of errors. Design/methodology/approach – A review of the classification of errors in several disciplines is undertaken. Findings – The role of errors...

... in the other. Design/methodology/approach – Working with real users throughout all stages of the design process, the authors structured two courses so findings from the evaluation methods learnt in the one course (their analyses) were directly acted on in the other (their re-designs). The authors...

...Prof Ranulph Glanville and Prof David Griffiths; Jose dos Santos Cabral Filho Purpose – The paper aims to present a framework for discussing ethics and computational design. Design/methodology/approach – The main propositions of computational design are presented, discussed according...

...Ranulph Glanville; Ben Sweeting; Ben Sweeting Purpose The purpose of this paper is to describe the various movements from abstraction to actuality in the context of design, with particular reference to architecture, first in terms of the design process and second in terms of the interpretation...