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The Cognitive, Social and Organizational Factors Contributing to Creativity in Eco-Design Ideation: Two Case Studies in the Electrical and Chemical Industries.

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Title/Author:	The Cognitive, Social and Organizational Factors Contributing to Creativity in Eco-Design Ideation: Two Case Studies in the Electrical and Chemical Industries./
Author:	Gideon, Andrea.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2019,
Description:	180 p.
Notes:	Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 82-09.
Contained By:	Masters Abstracts International82-09.
Subject:	Industrial engineering. -
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The Cognitive, Social and Organizational Factors Contributing to Creativity in Eco-Design Ideation: Two Case Studies in the Electrical and Chemical Industries.
Gideon, Andrea.

The Cognitive, Social and Organizational Factors Contributing to Creativity in Eco-Design Ideation: Two Case Studies in the Electrical and Chemical Industries. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2019 - 180 p.

Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 82-09.

Thesis (Master's)--Ecole Polytechnique, Montreal (Canada), 2019.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

In light of global sustainability challenges today, systemic and transformative innovation is arguably needed for radically reducing anthropogenic environmental impacts. Life cycle thinking is often cited as a powerful framework to achieve this goal. By using existing products as a starting point exploration, life cycle thinking inhibits creativity by too restrictively framing the eco-design problem. Although appropriate for incremental and rule-based eco-design approaches, life cycle thinking can be a factor of design fixation in innovative design contexts. This thesis aimed to understand the fixation effect in eco-design and how it manifests in real-world corporate settings. The fixation effect is a distinguishing element between two regimes of design: rule-based and innovative. Rule-based design operates within known working principles and frames, where fixation on the dominant design is necessary to converge towards a solution. In innovative design, however, fixation is purposely overcome by reframing the problem to imagine new products with new identities, using new working principles. Our first objective was thus to contrast a rule-based eco-design approach, driven by life cycle thinking, and an innovative ecodesign approach, driven by creative methods. This allowed us to apprehend how life cycle thinking might limit a full exploration of the design space. The interdisciplinary and complex nature of creativity implies that it can be affected on three different levels: individually, through the cognitive style and reaction to creative triggers, socially, through the power dynamics between participants in the ideation exercise, and at the organization level, how structures and management styles can affect intrinsic motivation. Our second, third and fourth objectives were respectively to unravel the cognitive, social and organizational factors that also contribute to (de)fixation during eco-design ideation. With research intervention, qualitative methods and a multiple case study approach, two global engineering firms each experienced a series of two carefully designed workshops: one life-cycledriven, and the other creative-methods-driven. With interviews, observations and recordings of the workshop experiences, the case studies were analyzed with design theory and a framework of cognitive, social and organizational creativity to address our objectives. The results show that life cycle thinking alone may hinder creativity, but when paired with cognitive conditions for creativity, favourable social interactions and specific organizational contexts, eco-design fixation can be overcome. Life cycle thinking caused fixation when it was used in its routine organizational context as a well-known and accepted rule-based eco-design tool. When life cycle thinking was new and the participants were more detached from the tool, life cycle thinking subsequently had little political value, and was an expansive trigger for creative ideas. In this context, life cycle thinking effectively allowed the participants to reframe the problem. The use of participatory design was also favourable for eco-design exploration, especially when the interests of all life cycle phases are given agency during the design process, the firm is less likely to remain fixated on its dominant design. The framing effect of an eco-design methodology therefore does not exist independently of its organizational context. This has profound implications for the sustainable innovation community who is often reliant purely on the frames inherent in life cycle approaches to strive for radical innovation for sustainability. Simply evaluating an innovation with life cycle thinking at different stages of its development does not empower sustainability issues to be at the heart of an innovative design inquiry. The sustainability professional needs to become fluent in creativity and innovative design issues if they are to position life cycle thinking as part of the ideation process to imagine sustainable products of the future that radically challenge the status quo.

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The Cognitive, Social and Organizational Factors Contributing to Creativity in Eco-Design Ideation: Two Case Studies in the Electrical and Chemical Industries.
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520 $a : A la lumiere des defis mondiaux en matiere de developpement durable, l'innovation systemique et transformative est sans doute necessaire pour reduire radicalement les impacts anthropiques sur l'environnement. La pensee cycle de vie est souvent citee comme un puissant cadre pour atteindre cet objectif. En utilisant un produit existant comme point de depart de l'exploration, la pensee cycle de vie empeche la creativite en cadrant de maniere trop restrictive le probleme d'eco-conception. Bien qu'elle soit appropriee pour les approches d'eco-conception incrementales et reglees, la pensee cycle de vie peut etre un facteur de fixation dans des contextes de conception innovante. Ce memoire vise a comprendre l'effet de fixation dans l'eco-conception et comment il se manifeste dans des environnements d'entreprise reels. L'effet de fixation est un element distinctif entre deux regimes de conception: reglee et innovante. La conception reglee fonctionne selon des principes de fonctionnement et des cadres connus, ou la fixation sur le dominant design est necessaire pour converger vers une solution. Toutefois la conceptions innovante la fixation est deliberement surmontee en recadrant le probleme pour imaginer de nouveaux produits avec de nouvelles identites, en utilisant de nouveaux principes de fonctionnement. Notre premier objectif etait donc de mettre en contraste une approche d'eco-conception reglee, fondee sur la notion de cycle de vie, et une approche d'eco-conception innovante, fondee sur des methodes creatives. Cela nous a permis d'apprehender comment la pensee du cycle de vie pourrait limiter une exploration de l'entierete de l'espace de conception. La nature interdisciplinaire et complexe de la creativite implique qu'elle peut etre affectee a trois niveaux: individuellement, soit le style cognitif et les reactions aux declencheurs creatifs, socialement, soit la dynamique du pouvoir entre les participants a l'exercice d'ideation, et au niveau de l'organisation, soit comment les structures et les styles de gestion peuvent affecter la motivation intrinseque. Nos deuxieme, troisieme et quatrieme objectifs etaient respectivement de decortiquer les facteurs cognitifs, sociaux et organisationnels qui contribuent egalement a la (de)fixation pendant l'ideation en eco-conception. Avec la recherche intervention, des methodes qualitatives et une approche d'etudes de cas multiples, deux firmes mondiales d'ingenierie ont chacune vecu une serie de deux ateliers soigneusement concus: l'un axe sur l'ACV et l'autre sur les methodes creatives. A l'aide d'entretiens, d'observations et d'enregistrements des experiences des ateliers, les etudes de cas ont ete analysees a l'aide de la theorie de la conception et d'un cadre conceptuel de creativite cognitive, sociale et organisationnelle repondant a nos objectifs. Les resultats demontrent que la pensee cycle de vie seule peut entraver la creativite, mais lorsqu'elle est associee a des conditions cognitives de creativite, a des interactions sociales favorables et a des contextes organisationnels specifiques, la fixation en eco-conception peut etre surmontee. La pensee cycle de vie aurait provoque la fixation lorsqu'elle ait ete utilise dans son contexte organisationnel habituel en tant qu'outil d'eco-conception reglee bien connu et accepte. Lorsque la pensee cycle de vie etait nouveau et que les participants etaient plus detaches de l'outil, la pensee cycle de vie etait moins politise et constituait un element declencheur expansif pour des idees creatives. Dans ce contexte, la pensee cycle de vie a effectivement permis aux participants de reformuler le probleme. L'utilisation de la conception participative (co-creation) etait egalement favorable a l'exploration de l'eco-conception, en particulier lorsque les interets de toutes les phases du cycle de vie sont pris en compte au cours du processus de conception, l'entreprise est moins susceptible de rester concentree sur son dominant design. L'effet de cadrage d'une methodologie d'ecoconception est donc dependant de son contexte organisationnel. Cela a de profondes implications pour la communaute de l'innovation durable, qui depend souvent uniquement des cadres inherents aux approches du cycle de vie pour rechercher l'innovation radicale en faveur de la durabilite. Le simple fait d'evaluer une innovation avec la pensee cycle de vie a differentes etapes de son developpement ne permet pas aux questions de developpement durable d'etre au coeur d'une enquete de conception innovante. Les professionnels du developpement durable doivent maitriser les notions de la creativite et de la conception innovante s'ils souhaitent positionner la pensee cycle de vie dans le processus d'ideation afin d'imaginer des produits durables du futur qui defient radicalement le statu quo.
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