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26 DESIGN EDUCATION, 2009

[ LAIA KLOSE, ELISA PADRÓN, JOANNA FERNÁNDEZ. Nymphaea. ELISAVA and Bayer Material Science ]

Issue 26 of the magazine ELISAVA TdD which deals with the university teaching of Design, is published at a key moment, coinciding with the development of the first degrees in Design, in Engineering in Industrial Design and in Building Engineering, programmes completely in tune with the transformation in teaching [...]


23 INNOVATION AND DESIGN, 2006



This issue of Temes de Disseny, in line with its programme to cover themes of remarkable interest within the area of design and culture as thoroughly as possible, is dedicated to disseminating what today may be said about design as an instrument aimed at developing and implementing creativity, the [...]


20 DESCRIBE MATERIALS. MATERIALS WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF THE DESIGN PROCESS, 2002



Humans have always designed things, objects, and they have created technology for their own well-being. The wish to design has certainly always existed, and it is also true that whereas in times gone by the processes of design and manufacture were united, at present they are separated somewhat. There [...]


17 CREATIVITY, COMMUNICATION AND MARKET, 2000



In our contemporary developed societies, creativity has become a central concept. This is a fact which is symptomatic of the cultural environment in which our lives develop. The 20th century has meant a generalisation of the application of the concept of 'creativity'. During the Middle Ages, creativity [...]


14 DESIGN, COMMUNICATION, CULTURE, 1997



The 14th Temes de Disseny, as the reader can see, a miscellany. In it, we bring together themes which directly refer to matters clearly springing from the complex universe of design, along with others which we would place in the wider context of thought and culture; there are also those which correspond to a [...]


11 ECODESIGN: A NEW CULTURE OF DESIGN, 1995



Two years ago, the Elisava school, in keeping with its pedagogic commitment as a centre of education for future projectionists and as a space for discussion and debate, and within its Research Institute, decided to place itself at the forefront of the growing ecologic conscience. From the [...]


08 DESIGN, TOOL FOR THE FUTURE, 1993



With this special number, Temes de Disseny aims to bring to the second Primavera del Disseny (the design fair held in the spring in Barcelona) a few reflections on the role that design, as an integrating element in the cultural phenomenon, plays and might play in thefuture. In this [...]


25 Design Research, 2008

[ CERVINI, KAYSER et al. Mobile Embodiements. Interaction-Ivrea, 2003 ]

Issue 25 of the magazine ELISAVA TdD focuses on the topic of design research through a series of articles which present different but complementary points of view across different areas of activity. Whether focussing on generating new creative processes that look in depth at techniques to help understand users [...]


22 ECONOMY AND DESIGN, 2006



As noted by Robin Roy 1 in Can the benefits of Good Design be quantified? (1994), many managers need to be convinced by quantitative data of the benefits of focusing more on design as a strategic element and of improving management guidelines before deciding to invest effectively in design. [...]


19 DESIGN'S PRESENT CHALLENGES. DESIGN AND VISUAL LANGUAGE, 2002



Number 19 of Design Issues which the reader has in their hands is miscellaneous. Evidently, that means to say that the articles found in it do not refer to one single issue. However, in this case it does not mean to say that points of reference can not be seen, nor even that a kind of shared spirit of the [...]


16 2000



The number in the reader's hands is a miscellany, which means, of course, that it contains articles on several themes. However, these articles can be grouped together in three different areas: the first deals with television as a communications medium, as well as the visual codes it uses; the second is made up [...]


13 THE CULTURE OF DESIGN, STEO BY STEP. THE ELISAVA SCHOOL IS 35 YEARS OLD, 1996



In 1996 we celebrate the 35th anniversary of foundation of the Elisava school, initially created as a school of art and design within the CIC Cultural Institution. More than three decades mean a considerable trajectory for an institution dedicated to design pedagogy because of the youth of this discipline [...]


10 NATURE, DESIGN AND INNOVATION, 1994



On very few occasions has a publication taken on the themes that this monographic number discusses: nature, design, and innovation, it is equally unusual to gather authors influential in their respective fields to reflect on the proposed title. But perhaps the greatest specialty and richness of this number [...]


07 DESIGN IN THE OLYMPIC GAMES. A HERITAGE FOR BARCELONA, 1992



«Where there is no style and norm there is barbarism.»   J. V. Foix   Temes de Disseny dedicates the present number to the Barcelona Olympic Games. Obviously, it is mainly centered around the subject of design, architecture and urbanism, but it also refers to the [...]


24 CRITICAL DESIGN, 2007



In 1986, in the first issue of ELISAVA Temes de Disseny, then called Temes de Disseny, in an article about social criticism of projects, Jordi Berrio proposed that a critical culture in this discipline was a discrediting culture. An attitude that necessarily involved a work of denunciation, due to which design [...]


21 MEMORY, COMMUNICATION, ECONOMY AND DESSIGN, 2004



Along the route from industrial civilisation to information civilisation, new design paths have been created which must be taken into account. One of them comes from the process of dematerialisation to which objects are subjected. Consumer objects tend to be increasingly valued more as signs of social [...]


18 KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION ON THE INTERNET, 2001



At a time in which the impact of new technologies, within the framework of the society of information and knowledge, evince an unquestionable need for the generation and production of various types of digital discourses for the net, it is inevitable to wonder how best to transmit information, from the [...]


15 PRODUCT, CONSUMPTION, COMMUNICATION: THE NEW SALES POINT, 1998



We can assert that the act of consumption has achieved omnipresence, to the point that it defines our contemporary society. From the impact of the Industrial Revolution to the development of mass communication media and new commercial spaces, a new situation is progressively being created which will bring [...]


12 DESIGN, COMMUNICATION, CULTURE, 1995



The volume we present is made up of a group of articles which can be said to revolve around three themes: the use of image, esthetic memory in design, and the methodology of projection. These three themes have been widely discussed since the beginning of theoretical reflection on design, but have not lost [...]


09 DESIGN, COMMUNICATION, CULTURE, 1993



After a series of monographic volumes, we feel the need to present a miscellaneous edition once more. The plurality of the world of design advises gathering in the wide range of contributions emanating from the several fields which make up the universe of the culture of de sign. However, monographic [...]


06 PEDAGOGY OF DESIGN, 1991



It is exactly thirty years since the Elisava School of Design in Barcelona began its work as pioneer of design teaching in Spain. It has trodden a broad path of constantly renewed teaching, to which Temes de Disseny aspires to correspond with the present monograph on the Teaching of Design and so [...]