Designing Creative Destruction
- Submitting institution
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Royal College of Art(The)
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- Hall4
- Type
- E - Conference contribution
- DOI
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10.21606/drs.2016.186
- Title of conference / published proceedings
- DRS2016: Future-Focused Thinking - DRS International Conference 2016
- First page
- 2483
- Volume
- 6
- Issue
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- ISSN
- 2398-3132
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2016
- URL
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https://dl.designresearchsociety.org/drs-conference-papers/drs2016/researchpapers/67/
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- Although crucial to understanding how humans change the world, the relationship between design and globalization has yet to be fully explored and understood. This peer-reviewed paper is one of a series of research publications and projects contributing to design thinking and practice at both local and global scales. The research aims to understand how design methods are a feature of homogenising (Hall & Barker 2011 in Design Principles and Practice 5(3) 507-516; Hall 2015 for Korean Society of Design Science Archives of Design Science) and heterogenising forces of globalization via creative destruction (this output). A number of discoveries emerged from this research including a model showing the impact of different types of design method on globalised cultural evolution. This produced a new cybernetic understanding at a systemic level of the amounts of requisite variety necessary for creative solutions for tackling future global issues, proposing a feedback loop between ubiquitising and differentiating design methods, mediating cultural variety in creative ecosystems. It addresses how design for differentiation of products versus design for ubiquitised products can form strategic choices in our designing of globalisation (Hall 2017 ‘Is Globalised Design Education Killing Design Variety?’ EPDE Conference, Oslo, 2017.). The risks from assumptions in globalized educational exchanges have also been highlighted. A linked series of practice-based design research enquiries developed projects exploring how designers can develop new methods once exposed to the opportunities, risks, issues and responsibilities of cultural exchange at a global scale (Hall & Cheng 2018 ‘Designing Globalisation Design’ EPDE, London, September 2018). Research included a 4,000km exploration of historical silk road innovations and their current relevance. This led to 5 applied design research projects demonstrating the scope of design research in tacking future globalisation issues (Cheng & Hall 2019 Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing).
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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