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SUMMARY:Inspiration on design fixation - Luis Arthur Vasconcelos\, Enginee
 ring Design Centre
DTSTART:20160224T110000Z
DTEND:20160224T120000Z
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CONTACT:Mari Huhtala
DESCRIPTION:How can we tell whether designers are being creative or stuck?
  Design fixation was initially defined as ‘a blind adherence to a set of
  ideas or concepts limiting the output of conceptual design’ (Jansson & 
 Smith\, Design Studies\, 1991). Since its first appearance in the literatu
 re\, design fixation has been a prolific research topic across different d
 isciplines. Researchers have been following a similar solution- or output-
 oriented procedure when investigating it\, although we can see slightly di
 fferent methods and metrics used to report fixation. In this talk I will r
 eport two experiments we did in order to get insight into the topic and th
 e main challenges we now face in research in design fixation. How can we s
 tudy it differently? What are the methods to incorporate? What are the fie
 lds to get inspiration from? What are the things to take into account? The
  audience is kindly asked to help answering such questions!
LOCATION:Sir Arhur Marshall Room\, Engineering Design Centre\, CUED
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