Faculty of Design

Industrial Design

Jane Darling

The Structure of Design Revolutions

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2020
A revolution can be described as one complete cycle. We think that revolutions build from discontent and they do. Their impact depends on how many people are invested in the earlier preferred paradigm at the point when it fails to satisfactorily describe their world view.

“"A design revolution occurs when a design theory is applied in practice until the situation that results from it is no longer the preferred one and a new theory surfaces as a result."”

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Jane Darling

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