Timely and timeless framing of the new MINI Cooper

IF 3.2 1区工程技术 Q2 ENGINEERING, MANUFACTURING Design Studies Pub Date : 2022-09-01 DOI:10.1016/j.destud.2022.101123

Linda Nhu Laursen, Mário Barros

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Abstract

This paper presents an exemplary case in the car industry: the design of the new MINI Cooper, released in 2001. Through a semi-structured interview with design expert Frank Stephenson and the use of secondary data, we examine how an expert designer considers time to design a car relevant across decades. We find that the framing of the new MINI Cooper integrates both timely and timeless aspects. In the process, Frank Stephenson draws values, frames and working principles from the present portfolio and competing products to create a succession of product generation.

We use this case to argue for the centrality of framing time when striving to create seminal, long-lasting designs. The study identifies ‘the framing of time’ as a main expertise in the car industry. Therefore, this paper answers scholars' calls for more research on how outstanding designers work to consider time (Cross, 2004).

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及时和永恒的框架，新的MINI库珀

本文介绍了汽车工业中的一个典型案例:2001年发布的新款MINI Cooper的设计。通过对设计专家弗兰克·斯蒂芬森(Frank Stephenson)的半结构化采访和二手数据的使用，我们研究了一位专业设计师如何考虑时间来设计一款与几十年相关的汽车。我们发现，新的MINI库珀的框架整合了及时和永恒的方面。在这个过程中，Frank Stephenson从现有的产品组合和竞争产品中汲取价值、框架和工作原理，创造出一系列的产品。我们用这个案例来论证在努力创造开创性的、持久的设计时，框架时间的中心地位。该研究将“时间框架”确定为汽车行业的主要专长。因此，本文回应了学者们对优秀设计师如何考虑时间的更多研究的呼吁(Cross, 2004)。

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Design Studies 工程技术-工程：制造

CiteScore

8.60

自引率

20.00%

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审稿时长

40 days

期刊介绍： Design Studies is a leading international academic journal focused on developing understanding of design processes. It studies design activity across all domains of application, including engineering and product design, architectural and urban design, computer artefacts and systems design. It therefore provides an interdisciplinary forum for the analysis, development and discussion of fundamental aspects of design activity, from cognition and methodology to values and philosophy. Design Studies publishes work that is concerned with the process of designing, and is relevant to a broad audience of researchers, teachers and practitioners. We welcome original, scientific and scholarly research papers reporting studies concerned with the process of designing in all its many fields, or furthering the development and application of new knowledge relating to design process. Papers should be written to be intelligible and pertinent to a wide range of readership across different design domains. To be relevant for this journal, a paper has to offer something that gives new insight into or knowledge about the design process, or assists new development of the processes of designing.