Collaborative Design Workshops: Explanation of an Analysing Model for Knowledge Exchange

During the period of 2006-2009 a workshop setting to train Collaborative Design Teams was developed as part of the Dutch Program for Permanent Education for Professionals. This Collaborative Design Workshop has to stimulate members of collaborative design teams, Architects, Roofers and Installers, to share, use and develop collectively specific information of innovative roofs. The aim of the workshop is to support design activities by the use of Integral design method with its design tool Morphological Overviews (MO) to structure information and knowledge exchange between and with commitment of all participants to optimize design solutions. The paper describes the set up for analysing design team’s explicit knowledge exchange and knowledge development. By using the Design Research Methodology a step by step approach is executed to develop the supportive method. First the development of the analysing approach is described. The second part shows the final procedure; how the data are collected and the different ways to analyse them; the Morphological Analysis and the Functional Sub-solution Video Analysis. First results of the analyzis of the Collaborative Design Workshop are presented and discussed.

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