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A critique of the representationalist framing of design (2022)
Journal Article
Tahsiri, M. (in press). A critique of the representationalist framing of design. Design Journal, 25(4), 617-635. https://doi.org/10.1080/14606925.2022.2083293

This paper brings attention to the chronological developments in a strand of design research that aimed at demystifying the characteristics and nature of design through what will be argued to have been predominantly a representationalist framework. I... Read More about A critique of the representationalist framing of design.

Architects’ ‘enforced togetherness’: New design affordances of the home (2022)
Journal Article
Marco, E., Tahsiri, M., Sinnett, D., & Oliveira, S. (2022). Architects’ ‘enforced togetherness’: New design affordances of the home. Buildings & Cities, 3(1), 168-185. https://doi.org/10.5334/bc.189

Lockdown impositions have impacted people’s lives, their health and wellbeing, changing the ways in which dwellings are used and occupied. Spaces within the home have had to be rapidly renegotiated, redesigned and resynchronised in ways not yet fully... Read More about Architects’ ‘enforced togetherness’: New design affordances of the home.