Dual-Basis Design: Transparencies

Transparencies to accompany the talk "Dual-Basis Design," which was later published in Polish with the title "Dwie Podstawy Projektowania (Dual-Basis Design).” The paper is a discussion of the concept of “due process” in design as a way to identify and monitor responsible management practices, which would lower the rate of catastrophic design failures. Warfield calls for the creation of a basic design science, with standards and practices for large-scale system designers that could become well-defined and legally enforceable over time.



SEE ALSO the two records in Textual materials table titled: 1) "Dual-Basis Design" 2) "Dwie Podstawy Projektowania (Dual-Basis Design). This is a set of transparencies prepared for the talk and kept in an Accopress note-binder with John's home copy of the published article described below. They are not at GMU library. Warfield prepared the article in 1987, in English. It was translated into Polish and published in a Polish journal in 1992. The title of the Polish translation is "Dwie Podstway Projectowania (Dual-Basis Design)," Polish Publication 1992 (Box 50 , Folder 5 )

ANNOTATION (WRITTEN BY ROSE WARFIELD) Introducing the concept of `due process' in design, providing a basis for identifying and monitoring responsible management practices, with the eventual outcomes of a lower rate of catastrophic design failures, and the elimination of much of the waste that characteristically occurs with large system design. The author proposes establishment of a basic design science, with standards and practices for large-scale system designs, with the view that over time such standards and practices could become well-defined and legally enforceable. The English version of this paper was written in 1987, prepared as a talk before the ASME conference in Boston. (International Congress on Planning and Design Theory, Boston, 17-20 August 1987, American Society of Mechanical Engineers.) I think this was the conference where Warfield got sick and left the conference after one day, and did not actually give the paper. It was not printed in the ASME proceedings. Warfield made minor revisions and in 1988 submitted it to Wojciech Gasparski, editor of the Polish journal. The paper was translated into Polish, and published in Warsaw in 1992




Additional Info

  • Category: Design Theory and Methodology, Science, Systems Science
  • Size: 10 Minutes
  • Type: Note/Memo
  • Description: Transparencies and typescript
  • Publication Year: 1988
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