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What is the logic of design process? Departing from this question, Tiago da Costa e Silva investigates the characteristic feature of every projective activity, for instance, in architecture, design, engineering design, and in the arts. In opposition to predominant views that understand design processes as mechanical and deterministic, this study, with the help of the semiotics of Charles S. Peirce, characterizes design activities as continuous and serendipitous interplays of esthetic and abductive processes that define rules and manifest forms. Tiago da Costa e Silva concludes that invention and discovery, manifested in the form of processes of abduction, actively pervade every development in any given context of design process.

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Tiago da Costa e Silva researches design processes, semiotics, and aesthetics, with special focus on form-giving processes, as well as on processes involving invention and discovery. A specialist in the field of the semiotics of Charles S. Peirce, he was awarded the Charles S. Peirce Young Scholar Award for his publication on aesthetic processes related to inventive occurrences. He is specialized in the fields of industrial design, visual communication, theory of communication, and semiotics as well as in theory and history of design. He is part of the research staff of the interdisciplinary laboratory ""Image Knowledge Gestaltung"" and of the Institute for Cultural Studies at Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany.

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