Name: Carlos
Surname: Cardoso
Given name: Carlos
Contact (E-mail address, Web site):
Dr. Carlos Cardoso
E-mail: c.m.cardoso(at)tudelft.nl
Web site: http://io.tudelft.nl/index.php?id=24218&L=1
Affiliation
Position: Assistant Professor
Organization: Faculty of Industrial Design
Engineering, TU Delft
Address:
Product Innovation Management Dept. (PIM)
Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering
Delft University of Technology
Landbergstraat, 15
2628 CE Delft
The Netherlands
Country: The Netherlands
Major/Field
Creativity during idea
generation, inspiration in design, creative thinking, (creative)
problem-solving.
Research Interests
Presently, my research investigates to what
extent different external stimuli (i.e. representation modalities) play a role
during design idea generation. I am particularly interested in investigating if
designers’ creative output would be influenced when exposed to different representations
(e.g. pictorial, text, three-dimensional) of existing design solutions.
It is generally accepted that designers have a
tendency to physically or mentally retain diverse visual representations they
come across, aimed at serving as inspiration in different points during their
creative processes. Whilst confirmation on this practice is mostly anecdotal,
there are a few accounts of designers acknowledged preference for visual
representations during idea generation. However, while searching for inspiration
designers also come across other types of information, such as: external
encoded sources like books, existing physical designs and its contexts, and
their own recollection of background experiences. Hence, despite designers’
allegedly preference for visual representations, especially pictorial ones, it
seems appropriate to assume that other sources (or at least diverse types of
visual stimuli) might also be utilised when
generating creative design ideas.
Generally speaking, designers are likely to
continue using different representation modalities of available precedents as a
source of inspiration. If particular types of representations influence
designers in terms of limiting their solution space, then the selection of
appropriate design exemplars and the stage of the design process where they are
introduced ought to be carefully considered.
Research questions, e.g.:
1. How do different
representation modalities, used as potential sources for inspiration, affect
designers’ creative behaviour during idea generation?
2. What type of
representation modalities are more likely to support
designers in devising innovative creative ideas?
3. How do designers
retrieve attributes from available precedents and how do they (re)use them when
generating new solution ideas?
Selected Publications (max.4)
l Cardoso, C. and Badke-Schaub,
P. (2011). Fixation or inspiration: creative problem solving in design. The Journal
of Creative Behavior, 45 (2), 77-82.
l Cardoso, C. and Badke-Schaub,
P. (2011). The Influence of different pictorial representations during idea
generation. The Journal
of Creative Behavior, 45 (2), 130-146.
l Cardoso, C. and Badke-Schaub, P. (2009). Give design
a break: the role of incubation periods during idea generation. In M. Bergendahl, M. Grimheden,
L. Leifer, P. Skogstad, and U. Lindemann (Eds.), Proceedings
of the 17th International Conference on Engineering Design (ICED'09): Vol 2.
Design Theory and Research
Methodology (pp. 383–394).
l Cardoso, C. and Badke-Schaub, P. (2009). Idea
fixation in design: the influence of pictures and words. In A. Chakrabarti
(Ed.), Research Into Design: Supporting
Multiple Facets of Product Development (pp. 51–58).