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The papers, chapters, reports and pages the doctoral thesis behind the framework cites and consulted, with where each author sits in the book.

A 40 años de la autopoiesis de Maturana, el concepto más revolucionario de la ciencia chilena a nivel mundial

H. Cossio · 2018

An El Mostrador article on the significance of autopoiesis, the concept Chilean biologists Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela introduced to describe living systems as self-producing cyclical networks, and its wide influence beyond biology.

A 40 años de la autopoiesis de Maturana, el concepto más revolucionario de la ciencia chilena a nivel mundial - El Mostrador

H. Cossio · 2013

A 2013 article marking 40 years since Humberto Maturana's concept of autopoiesis, explaining its biological origins with Francisco Varela and how Maturana later extended it to language, perception, education and human coexistence.

A frame work of design usin Autopoiesis

H. Igarashi, M. Ohtsubo, T. Uemura · 2018

A Japanese design-research paper applying the biological concept of autopoiesis to design, proposing an "enactive interface" that treats artifacts as part of a user's active environment rather than passive tools, and using the idea of embodiment to bridge self-producing living systems and designed artifacts.

A framework for organizing the tools and techniques of participatory design

E. B.-N. Sanders, E. Brandt, T. Binder · 2010

This paper proposes a framework, organized around form, purpose and context, to help design researchers choose among the many tools and techniques used in participatory design.

About Ideo

Ideo · 2017

IDEO is a global design and innovation consultancy, formed in 1991, recognized as a pioneer of human-centered design, a problem-solving approach that starts from people's needs and works toward solutions tailored to them. Its work spans product design, organizational innovation, and public-service projects, and it has since extended into design education through IDEO U.

An Incomplete Manifesto for Growth

B. Mau · 2001

Bruce Mau's 'Incomplete Manifesto for Growth' is a list of forty-three short statements about creative process, encouraging designers to treat growth, risk and even failure as part of a working method rather than obstacles to avoid.

Autopoiesis: Reproduction, heredity, and evolution

H. Maturana · 1980

A 1980 book chapter in which Humberto Maturana applies his concept of autopoiesis, self-producing living systems, to questions of biological reproduction, heredity and evolution.

Buckminster Fuller

Buckminster Fuller Institute · 2016

The Buckminster Fuller Institute's biography of R. Buckminster Fuller, describing him as a "comprehensive anticipatory design scientist" known for the geodesic dome, the concept of Spaceship Earth, and a whole-systems approach aimed at making the world work for all of humanity.

Cambridge Dictionary

Cambridge Dictionary · 2019

A citation of the Cambridge Dictionary's entry for the English word "design," used as an authoritative English-language reference for the term.

Claude Bernar and the constancy of the internal environmet

C. Gross · 1998

Charles Gross's article recounts the life and ideas of the French physiologist Claude Bernard, the founder of modern experimental physiology, focusing on his concept of the constancy of the internal environment, an idea that had little impact during Bernard's own lifetime, and considers why recognition of it was delayed.

Co-creation and the new landscapes of design

E. B.-N. Sanders, P. J. Stappers · 2008

This widely cited paper describes how design research has shifted from designing for users toward co-designing with them, and discusses what that shift means for the roles of designers, researchers and the people once called users.

Creative Practice and Critical Reflection: productive science in design research

K. T. Buchanan · 2002

This article by Kaja Tooming Buchanan looks at creative design practice and critical reflection as a form of productive inquiry within design research. It is part of the design theory literature on how designers generate knowledge through practice rather than through conventional scientific method alone.