Chris Rust Academic Pages

Chris Rust's recommended resources

last updated 26 Nov 2006

These are documents (and links to documents) that I have found valuable

I recommend that you do not cite this page as the source unless there is no alternative, this is not a guaranteed permanent archive.

I created this page mainly as a home for Henrik Gedenryd's thesis when it disappeared from the Lund University website.

How Designers Work - Making Sense of Authentic Cognitive Activity
Henrik Gedenryd's PhD Thesis from Lund University.
One of the most valuable piece of work on designing that I have encountered, and a good source for other key texts. Unfortunately Gedenryd died after completing this work, a very sad loss and I wonder where he might have taken his knowledge if he had lived.
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Hospital beds by design: a socio-historical account of the 'King's Fund Bed',1960-1975.
Ghislaine Lawrence's PhD Thesis from London University, 2001
This thesis is of wide interest to designers and design historians as it provides a new insight into an early large-scale practical design research project, conducted by Bruce Archer's team at the Royal College of Art in the 1960s, and also into the thinking of the early years of design research and the Design Methods movement
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An Articulated Skeletal Analogy of the Human Upper Limb
Graham Whiteley's PhD Thesis from Sheffield Hallam University, 2000
This was the first practice-led design PhD at Sheffield Hallam University. Graham Whiteley is an very talented 3-D designer who set out to create an entirely new set of principles for the construction of artificial arms for robotics or prostheses. This work led directly in to my own interest in tacit knowledge and the ideas which I have subsequently published on design inquiry.
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