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This project is concerned with developing a formal model of design knowledge, named the CDH hierarchical model, which helps design practitioners and design researchers to better understand, explain, map, and acquire various bodies of design knowledge (“BDKs”).

The figure below shows the CDH model with its three main levels: context, design state, and high-level design knowledge, as well as some typical BDKs found at each level.

The paper:

S. Kolarić, J. Beck, E. Stolterman: On the Hierarchical Levels of Design Knowledge, full paper, Proceedings of the Design Society, DESIGN Conference, Cambridge University Press (2020). https://doi.org/10.1017/dsd.2020.330

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