Dorst, K (2007) Building for the visual age. Building Research & Information, 35(5), pp. 581-583. ISSN 0961-3218
Abstract
While architects and builders in practice have embraced ever more visually based ways of working, the research into these new visual practices has lagged behind. The recent special issue on 'Visual Practices: Images of Knowledge Work' (2007) provided important new understanding of the ways in which the visual and the use of visual objects actually operate in our professions. This Forum paper explores some of the challenges and difficulties that researchers face, and it develops an agenda for the future development of this important line of inquiry.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | collaboration; communication; design process; design research; knowledge exchange; social context; visual practices |
| Index terms: | knowledge exchange, architect, builder, profession, design process, face, collaboration |
| Subjects: | management, psychology, profession, design methods, knowledge management, practitioner, institututions |
| Topics: | Design Practice, Roles and Professions, Information Management, Organizational Design |
| Descriptive scope: | 2 PC |
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