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".
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 65-76 |
| Number of pages | 12 |
| Journal | Proceedings of the International Conference on Engineering Design, ICED |
| Volume | 1 |
| Issue number | DS 80-01 |
| State | Published - 2015 |
| Event | 20th International Conference on Engineering Design, ICED 2015 - Milan, Italy Duration: 27 Jul 2015 → 30 Jul 2015 |
Keywords
- Archaelogy-inspired design
- Archaeonics
- Design methodology
- Innovation
- Sustainability
