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Both design and knowledge claim key positions in current debates as concepts with »medial scope, but high strategic meaning«[1], rather than as terms. In design research discourse, these concepts are joined, superimposed and intersect against the background of new views on knowledge and knowledge production.

The thesis of Claudia Mareis investigates interferences between discourses of design and knowledge from a discourse theory perspective beginning in 1960 up until today. The thesis examines how design artefacts and practices are transformed and perpetuated into objects of knowledge by discourse. For this purpose, the thesis explores historical aspects regarding the interrelationship between design and knowledge, and elucidates relevant key-texts on design theory, such as Simon (1969), Rittel (1992), Schön (1983), Dreyfus/Dreyfus (1988), Archer (1965) and Cross (1982) in a first general part.

Both design and knowledge claim key positions in current debates as concepts with »medial scope, but high strategic meaning«[1], rather than as terms. In design research discourse, these concepts are joined, superimposed and intersect against the background of new views on knowledge and knowledge production. The thesis of Claudia Mareis investigates interferences between discourses of design and knowledge from a discourse theory perspective beginning in 1960 up until today. The thesis examines how design artefacts and practices are transformed and perpetuated into objects of knowledge by discourse. For this purpose, the thesis explores historical aspects regarding the interrelationship between design and knowledge, and elucidates relevant key-texts on design theory, such as Simon (1969), Rittel (1992), Schön (1983), Dreyfus/Dreyfus (1988), Archer (1965) and Cross (1982) in a first general part.