@inbook{f0730f87ad2f4e2f9538e801a31cf03f,
title = "Past Designs as Repositories of Tacit Collective Knowledge",
abstract = "As most engineering design proceeds by modifying past designs and reusing and adapting existing components and solution principles, a significant part of the knowledge engineers employ in design is encapsulated in the past designs they are familiar with. References to past designs, as well as encounters with them, serve to invoke the knowledge associated with them and constructed from them. This chapter argues that much of this knowledge is tacit consisting in and/or made available by the perceptual recognition of features and situations, using a discussion of design margins to illustrate how engineers use tacit knowledge in reasoning about the properties of new designs.",
keywords = "Design knowledge, Engineering design practice, Engineering epistemology, Know how, Object reference, Philosophy of design, Tacit knowledge",
author = "Mark Addis and Claudia Eckert and Martin Stacey",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.",
year = "2023",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-031-25233-4_5",
language = "English",
series = "Philosophy of Engineering and Technology",
publisher = "Springer Nature",
pages = "55--66",
booktitle = "Philosophy of Engineering and Technology",
}