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SUMMARY:Comparing and sharing complex design practices accross domains - D
 r Chih-Chun Chen\, Cambridge Engineering Design Centre
DTSTART:20160203T103000Z
DTEND:20160203T113000Z
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CONTACT:Mari Huhtala
DESCRIPTION:Complex design comes in many guises\, e.g. "complexity enginee
 ring"\, "wicked problems" and span many domains and design contexts. Howev
 er\, practitioners working on complex design problems rarely share their s
 olutions\, most likely because they are closely tied to the nature of the 
 systems they are addressing\, e.g. it would be unusual for city planners a
 nd roboticists to share their problem-solving approaches with each other d
 espite the fact that the problems they are facing have very similar charac
 teristics. In this talk I will summarise two interview studies with specia
 lists in Synthetic Biology and Swarm Robotics\, which identify three domai
 n-general aspects of complex design. I will then describe how a framework 
 built from these three domain-general aspects of complex design practice a
 llow the practices in the two fields to be shared and compared\, and discu
 ss how this approach might be generalised to share and compare practices w
 ithin and between different design contexts
LOCATION:Sir Arhur Marshall Room\, Engineering Design Centre\, CUED
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