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ARCHAEONICS – HOW TO USE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOLUTIONS FOR MODERN PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT.
Guertler, Matthias R.; Schaefer, Simon; Lipps, Johannes; Stahl, Stephan; Lindemann, Udo
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Year:
2015
Editor:
Christian Weber, Stephan Husung, Gaetano Cascini, Marco Cantamessa, Dorian Marjanovic, Monica Bordegoni
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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".
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