Material Engagement Model - A Study of Spatial Designers' Lived Experience of Unknown Materials
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Open access
Authors
Verghese, George
Date
2021Supervisor
Qassim Saad
Philip Ely
Dianne Smith
Type
Thesis
Award
PhD
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Humanities
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School of Design and the Built Environment
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Abstract
The Material Engagement Model (MEM) provides a heuristic model for understanding the telic and paratelic processes that occur when spatial designers encounter an unknown material. The model is derived from qualitative research with a diverse set of international spatial designers, whose practices involve advanced materials and innovative creative risk-taking. A phenomenological analysis grounded on the work of Heidegger and Bourdieu is applied to the Reversal Theory model of Apter in the development of the MEM.
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