ARCHAEONICS – HOW TO USE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOLUTIONS FOR MODERN PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT.
Year: 2015
Editor: Christian Weber, Stephan Husung, Gaetano Cascini, Marco Cantamessa, Dorian Marjanovic, Monica Bordegoni
Author: Guertler, Matthias R.; Schaefer, Simon; Lipps, Johannes; Stahl, Stephan; Lindemann, Udo
Series: ICED
Institution: 1: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany; 2: Eberhard Karls University Tuebingen, Germany; 3: Engineers without Borders
Section: Design for Life
Page(s): 065-076
ISBN: 978-1-904670-64-3
ISSN: 2220-4334
Abstract
This paper addresses the fact that product development often tends to "reinvent the wheel". By inventing the Archaeonics methodology / Archaeology-inspired-design (AID), we present a systematic approach to identify suitable archaeological solutions and make them useable for modern engineering issues. For this, we use problem abstractions and analogy search methods from TRIZ and biology-inspired design. The archaeology-inspired design approach was successfully evaluated in the context of a water cistern building project in Tanzania which is coordinated by the German chapter of "Engineers Without Borders".
Keywords: Archaeonics, Archaelogy-Inspired Design, Design Methodology, Innovation, Sustainability