Towards a Common Framework to Operate with: Mediating Experience Design and Architecture

Abstract

This paper is concerned with one of the oldest design disciplines i.e. architecture, and one of the newest ones i.e. experience design. It is based on the assumption that as an emerging discipline, experience design may learn much from architecture, while architecture could make itself a new way out with the help of an experience design’s intensive research agenda. It argues that, to mediate both disciplines, a common conceptual and theoretical framework is required. Towards this ultimate aim, first it reviews the essentials of the so-called experience design and related issues of architecture, with a special emphasis on their common epistemological roots, and then it goes on to give a rough sketch of a theoretical and conceptual framework.