The University of Twente
April 7 - 9, 2008
Design more and more becomes the art of bringing together expertise and experts from different domains in creating future products. This multi-disciplinary character requires changes of the design environments, methods and tools in all phases of the development cycle.
Besides the analysis based approach, effective and adequate design synthesis is required to master the many faces of the future design process.
In this, synthesis implies composing design elements and approaches, so as to form a whole, as well as combining diverse conceptions into a coherent whole.
Design synthesis therefore relies on e.g. adequate process descriptions and methods, on structured means for information and knowledge management, on effective (analysis and simulation) tools, on stimulating (virtual reality) environments and on suitable methods to govern the entire process.
But the decisive factor is the effective and far-reaching facilitation of the interaction between designers, domain experts and users.
This conference focuses on all aspects of design synthesis, from theoretical onsets to practical implementations and educational perspective.
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