Security is one of the most critical factors affecting the quality of urban spaces. Nowadays, most of these spaces have become merely pathways with neither social life nor sense of belonging to it. Insufficiency of public surveillance along with weak sense of control and surveillance results in spaces with high crime rate. In the late 60s and early 70s, high crime statistics in open urban space...

This study explores the role of sketching when designers are creating fast, preliminary prototypes during hands on design-and-build activities. Many studies have noted the value of both sketching and the building of preliminary prototypes in the early stages of the design process. In a typical design scenario, exploratory sketches are made before prototypes are fabricated. However, in certain c...

A modified profile optimization method using a smoothest shape modification strategy (POSSEM) is developed for airfoil shape optimization in a preliminary design environment. POSSEM is formulated to overcome two technical difficulties frequently encountered when conducting multipoint airfoil optimization within a high-resolution design space: the generation of undesirable optimal airfoil shapes...

Industrial Design lies at the interface between the aesthetic elements of styling and appearance, and the innovation which is driven by science and technology. It requires the application of knowledge from a multiplicity of interdependent disciplines. The teaching Industrial Design of at our university, favours the heuristic approach taking inspiration from the natural world[1], the creation of...

This paper proposes a new design method. Key aspects of the method are the concept of “framing the problem”, and the need to design “in-the-world” throughout the design process. The method is based on Henrik Gedenryd’s notion of “interactive cognition” and Donald Schön’s ideas as embodied in his concept of “reflective practice”. The paper discusses the related elements from Gedenryd. It describ...