TY - GEN
T1 - Designing for innovation
T2 - International fib Symposium on Conceptual Design of Structures
AU - Ruge, Johanna
AU - Bögle, Annette
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© fédération internationale du béton (fib).
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - As typical problem solvers, structural engineers often face new and complex problems, recently for instance due to digitalization or climate change. Often, such problems cannot be approached using established methods. Instead, structural engineers need to rethink existing problem-solving processes and develop new approaches. In this paper, we propose that an inductive approach of thinking in models is essential to address complex new problems in structural enigeering and generate innovations. Based on a literature review, we explore the meaning and importance of this approach and illustrates it with two examples of practice. Hereby, we aim to provide an account of the potentials of this approach in structural engineering to design for innovations and seek to contribute to a change of mind-set in engineering practice as well as in research and education.
AB - As typical problem solvers, structural engineers often face new and complex problems, recently for instance due to digitalization or climate change. Often, such problems cannot be approached using established methods. Instead, structural engineers need to rethink existing problem-solving processes and develop new approaches. In this paper, we propose that an inductive approach of thinking in models is essential to address complex new problems in structural enigeering and generate innovations. Based on a literature review, we explore the meaning and importance of this approach and illustrates it with two examples of practice. Hereby, we aim to provide an account of the potentials of this approach in structural engineering to design for innovations and seek to contribute to a change of mind-set in engineering practice as well as in research and education.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85134794110
U2 - 10.35789/fib.PROC.0055.2021.CDSymp.P003
DO - 10.35789/fib.PROC.0055.2021.CDSymp.P003
M3 - Conference Paper
SN - 978-2-940643-12-7
T3 - fib Symposium Proceedings
SP - 41
EP - 48
BT - Proceedings of the International fib Symposium on the Conceptual Design of Structures
A2 - Fivet, Corentin
A2 - D'Acunto, Pierluigi
A2 - Fernández Ruiz, Miguel
A2 - Ohlbrock, Patrick Ole
PB - Fédèration Internationale du Bèton
CY - Lausanne
Y2 - 16 September 2021 through 18 September 2021
ER -
