The paper presents a pilot interdisciplinary research study carried out as a step towards
understanding the neurological basis of design thinking. The study involved functional …

This paper seeks to explain the nature of autopoiesis and its capacity to be efficacious, and
to do this, it uses agency theory as embedded in metacybernetics. Agency, as a generalised …

The design process of engineering systems frequently involves hundreds of activities and
people over long periods of time and is implemented through complex networks of …

The subject of this paper is design intentionality. The paper is concerned with the property of
the mind to hold intentional states (its capacity to represent or reflect existing and …

This paper argues that in order to achieve better coordination in dealing with spatial
development across borders, the current focus on territorial governance and organizational …

Students in design education at a distance are often working alone; they are geographically
distributed, and have diverse cultural and educational backgrounds. One of the recurring …

The artefact and techno-centricity of the research into the architecture process needs to be
counterbalanced by other approaches. An increasing amount of information is collected and …

O projecto de máquinas novas, desenvolvido em Pequenas e Médias Empresas Industriais,
nos casos em que as quantidades de produtos produzidos, a partir do mesmo projecto, são …

Much of the world we live in is the result of some sort of 'design activity'. It is theresult of the
capacity to form responses within a 'task'environment by recognisingopportunities …

Much of the world we live in is the result of some sort of 'design activity'. It is the result of the
capacity to form responses within a 'task'environment by recognising opportunities …