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Dr Marisha McAuliffe is one of Australia's
foremost researchers in colour and design.
Educated in interior architecture and
holding a PhD in design thinking and
cognitive science, McAuliffe specialises in
colour theory and application in the built
environment.
Design is fundamental to our modern world. All human achievements,
great and small, owe their being, in no small measure, to the concept of
design. Whether it is in social and technological innovations, great
human endeavours, building and construction projects or simply the
environ and desire of the individual, design has been there. But a
question remains: what goes on inside the designer’s head?
For many decades now researchers, philosophers and academics have
pondered this question. In this book Dr. Marisha McAuliffe focuses on
the notions of imagining and design to interrogate such a question.
Research to date has focussed on the notions of ‘abductive thinking’
and of ‘framing’ and has cast imagining as a process focused almost
exclusively on thinking and problem solving processes. As McAuliffe
explains, this has had the consequence of downplaying the experiential
and aesthetic dimensions of design and the role of imagining in
facilitating creative mental synthesis. McAuliffe argues: surely there’s
more to consider?
In this book McAuliffe’s outlines her seminal work, as a design
practitioner and academic over many years, to expand our
understanding of imagining in the spatial design disciplines of
architecture and interior design.
This book is compulsive reading for the design professional, the student
of design and those who have pondered, what goes on inside the
designer’s head?
Marisha McAuliffe
Inside the Designer
Understanding imagining in spatial
design
MarishaMcAuliffeInsidetheDesigner:Understandingimagininginspatialdesign.