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IST Design Studio October 2003_____________________________________________________________________________3. Strategy: Promoting creativity for innovationThe importance of designing discovery approaches that go beyond scientific method hasbeen widely discussed, and the strategy of the IST Design Studio is focused onstimulating a creative attitude towards innovation.In general, the analysis shows that in the emerging learning economies, the secret ofsuccess is a combination of expertise in a productive manner. This breaks with existingconcepts of time, space, mass and behaviour. In fact, current technological systems arecomplex, and carry many levels of cultural meaning, which per se brings newchallenges and opportunities for innovative product development.The building-up of design capabilities involves multiple learning routes, includingformal and informal processes, where the roles of design development and productionexperience are simultaneously important, as schematically represented in Figure 2. Thelower half of this diagram considers avenues through which production capabilitiesevolve. They include “development projects”, which are associated with the launch ofnew products, and “production experience”, which provides capabilities for new productdevelopment.The diagram is symmetric because both development projects and productionexperience have dual roles as users and producers of capabilities. This framework raisesinteresting issues in the development of design and production capabilities and here ourattention is focused on “learning before doing” in terms of the product developmentprocess itself. However, the “learning-by-doing” component is particularly important inthe process of network building, through experiencing long-distance interactions withstudents with different backgrounds.Knowledge Requiredfor Design Process DevelopmentDesignDevelopmentCapabilitiesKnowledge aboutProduction Problemsand ConditionsDesign ProcessDevelopmentProductionExperienceNew ProcessTechnologyLearning before DoingProductionCapabilitiesLearning by DoingCapabilities Requiredfor ProductionFigure 2. Capabilities development for complex product design.___________________________________________________________________www.istdesignstudio.net 8
IST Design Studio October 2003_____________________________________________________________________________In this context, the IST Design Studio considers the development of joint educationaland research programmes that allow implementing the idea of learning-networksthrough the establishment of a learning environment in which multiple sites distributedaround Portugal (…and the world) share an educational and/or research experience.This has been possible due to advances in information and communicationstechnologies that have increased the ability of networking, and here we considerlearning networks that lead to self-reinforcing learning cycles. We will consider fullydistributed systems, in that learning is provided any time, any place, and beyond asingle organisation. In this context, “virtual teams” will be associated with theemergence of distributed cross-organizational arrangements, which involve people fromdifferent organizations who work in different places.4. Work Plan: transdiciplinary and multi-taskThe practical relevance of the IST Design Studio requires the continued adaptation ofresearch and education programmes to industrial needs, but also the understanding ofmajor industry needs and opportunities, namely at the level of new product and processdevelopment, as well as of leading edge scientific knowledge. This is to be made basedon the continued integration of traditional disciplinary knowledge and scientificachievements into well-defined mission-oriented projects with real significance. Theprocedure will encompass the continuous development of software tools in the form ofCAE products, providing the necessary technological knowledge for projectimplementation.Figures 3 and 4 show the various phases involved in product and process development,respectively, and identifies the main areas of application of the IST Design Studio, inthat the development of any successful idea and/or concept should encompass itssimulation, prototyping, test and process implementation. This will make from the ISTDesign Studio a unique programme, but requires the careful integration oftransdisciplinary knowledge making use of multi-task procedures.___________________________________________________________________www.istdesignstudio.net 9
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