TY  - CONF
TI  - Socio-Constructivist Account of Collaboration in Concept Design
AU  - Gomes, Danilo
AU  - Tzortzopoulos, Patrícia
AU  - Kagioglou, Mike
AD  - PhD candidate in Architecture, University of Huddersfield, UK danilo.gomes@hud.ac.uk
AD  - Professor, Head of Department for Architecture and 3D Design, University of Huddersfield, UK, p.tzortzopoulos@hud.ac.uk
AD  - Professor, Dean of the School of Art, Design and Architecture, University of Huddersfield, UK, m.kagioglou@hud.ac.uk
PY  - 2017
DA  - 2017/07/09
T2  - 25th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction
C3  - 25th Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction
CY  - Heraklion, Greece
SP  - 301
EP  - 308
DO  - 10.24928/2017/0300
SN  - 2309-0979 (ISSN)
AB  - In a collective design situation, participants usually have limited understanding of how other designers operate in the project and how their work has interdependencies with other design tasks. Most commonly, misunderstandings between team members will emerge around vague design representations and undocumented decisions, creating negative iterations in design. Collaboration at concept design includes actions to build shared understanding of product and process concepts amongst the design team. In this paper, it is suggested that the wicked nature of concept design requires collaboration to be conceptualised in terms of collective creative actions within team interactions. Through a synthesis of the literature, a model to study collaboration in concept design is suggested. The model proposes that collaboration is determined by the group’s ability to perform collective-reflective actions. Further development on the proposed model will provide ways of measuring and improving collaboration within multidisciplinary design teams.
KW  - Collaboration
KW  - Multidisciplinary Team
KW  - Concept Design
KW  - Shared Understanding
KW  - Socio-constructive interactions
L1  - https://www.iglc.net/papers/details/1408/pdf
UR  - https://www.iglc.net/papers/details/1408
DB  - IGLC.net
LA  - English
N1  - Export date: 04 October 2026
ER  -