{"title":"Constructing accounts of decision-making in sustainable design: A discursive psychology analysis","authors":"Liz Cooper","doi":"10.1016/j.destud.2022.101158","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Many methods have been developed to help designers make better and more sustainable design decisions. Yet there is limited research on designers' perspectives on design decision-making. In this study, discursive psychology is used to analyse designers' accounts of decision-making. The designers show difficulty in trying to describe decision-making as an identifiable action. Different strategies are used to articulate how decision-making fits into the design process. Accounts of how decisions are made involve constructions of rational decision-making which are then undermined through ‘confessions’ of intuition. Decisions about sustainability are portrayed as made by other stakeholders, rather than by designers. The findings show that decision-making is a flexible construct that can be used to account for various actions.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":50593,"journal":{"name":"Design Studies","volume":"84 ","pages":"Article 101158"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2000,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Design Studies","FirstCategoryId":"5","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0142694X22000783","RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"ENGINEERING, MANUFACTURING","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Many methods have been developed to help designers make better and more sustainable design decisions. Yet there is limited research on designers' perspectives on design decision-making. In this study, discursive psychology is used to analyse designers' accounts of decision-making. The designers show difficulty in trying to describe decision-making as an identifiable action. Different strategies are used to articulate how decision-making fits into the design process. Accounts of how decisions are made involve constructions of rational decision-making which are then undermined through ‘confessions’ of intuition. Decisions about sustainability are portrayed as made by other stakeholders, rather than by designers. The findings show that decision-making is a flexible construct that can be used to account for various actions.
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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.
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