Ted Krueger

Ted Krueger is the Associate Dean and Associate Professor of Architecture at the Renssealer Polytechnic Institute where he is the Director if the PhD program in the Architectural Sciences. Krueger recieved a Master of Architecture from Columbia University, a BA in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and is currently undertaking a PhD in Architecture from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. His research interests concern human-environment interaction, the architecture of extreme environments and perceptual prosthetics.

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Thoughts on Design and Science

Through a series of case studies this paper examines the role of design to the resolution of scientific, technical and medical issues. Cases include the design of worksurfaces for astronauts on the ISS, a media augmented exercise machines for microgravity conditions, architecture and Alzheimers disease, devices design for perceptual prosthetics, a medical clinic in a shipping container for Haiti, and a Patient Transport System that reduces time-to-treatment for Stroke patients. The paper argues that design thinging requires the synthesis of multiple perspectives and levels of analysis and is therefore fundamentally different than analytic and descriptive traditions of science. While this often leads to conflict in mulit-disciplinary teams, the perspectives are complementary not antagonistic.