What is the logic of design process? Departing from this question, Tiago da Costa e Silva investigates the characteristic feature of every projective activity, for instance, in architecture, design, engineering design, and in the arts. In opposition to predominant views that understand design processes as mechanical and deterministic, this study, with the help of the semiotics of Charles S. Peirce, characterizes design activities as continuous and serendipitous interplays of esthetic and abductive processes that define rules and manifest forms. Tiago da Costa e Silva concludes that invention and discovery, manifested in the form of processes of abduction, actively pervade every development in any given context of design process.
Preface and Acknowledgements Kein Zugriff Seiten 9 - 16
Introduction Kein Zugriff Seiten 17 - 26
On the Intrinsic Processuality of Design Process Kein Zugriff Seiten 29 - 72
Research Problems and the main Hypothesis of the Present Inquiry Kein Zugriff Seiten 73 - 114
Psychological Foundations: Creativity, Invention, Association, and Problem Solving Kein Zugriff Seiten 117 - 158
The Traditional Bases of Design Process: Invention, Discovery, and Creativity According to Modern Psychological Investigations Kein Zugriff Seiten 159 - 190
A Problematic Tradition: Sign Theories in the Context of Design Process Kein Zugriff Seiten 193 - 232
The Semiotics of Charles S. Peirce in the Context of a Philosophical Architecture Kein Zugriff Seiten 233 - 266
Detailed Review of Peirce''s Semiotics: Semiosis, Interpretation, and Pragmatic Operation Kein Zugriff Seiten 267 - 294
Design Process in Light of Semiotics: Symbiotic Operations Inherent to the Semiosis of Design Process Kein Zugriff Seiten 295 - 342
List of Figures Kein Zugriff Seiten 343 - 344
Bibliographical References Kein Zugriff Seiten 345 - 364
