Open Design Systems

Current systems design and decision management methodologies can be single-sided, ignoring or failing to capture the dynamic interplay between multi-stakeholder preferences (‘what they want’) and system performances (‘what they can’). In addition, these methodologies often contain fundamental modelling errors and do not provide single best-fit solutions. This leaves designers or decision-makers without unique answers to their problems. Above all, mainstream higher education primarily applies instructivist and research-based learning methods, and therefore does not adequately prepare students for designing solutions to future complex problems.This book introduces both a state-of-the-art participatory design methodology (Odesys), and a design-based learning concept (ODL), which together overcome the aforementioned issues. Odesys is a pure act of open design integration to confront conflicting socio-technical interests and is the key to unlocking these complexities to deliver socially responsible systems. Odesys’ design engine, the Preferendus, enables stakeholders to cooperatively identify their best-fit design synthesis. It employs a novel optimisation method that maximises the aggregated preferences, integrating sound mathematical and extended U-modelling via open technical-, social-, and purpose cycles. The art of ODL is a constructivist design-based and well-proven learning concept fostering students’ design capabilities to become open and persistent problem solvers. It is a reflective, creative, and engaged learning approach that opens human development and unlocks new knowledge and solutions.The author also introduces new management features such as the corporate social identifier (CSI), the ‘socio-eco’ threefold organization model and U-model based open loop management. Finally, the author places Odesys & ODL within the integrative context of empiricism, rationalism, spiritualism, and constructivism to unite the open design impulse. Current systems design and decision management methodologies can be single-sided, ignoring or failing to capture the dynamic interplay between multi-stakeholder preferences (‘what they want') and system performances (‘what they can'). In addition, these methodologies often contain fundamental modelling errors and do not provide single best-fit solutions. This leaves designers or decision-makers without unique answers to their problems. Above all, mainstream higher education primarily applies instructivist and research-based learning methods, and therefore does not adequately prepare students for designing solutions to future complex problems. This book introduces both a state-of-the-art participatory design methodology (Odesys), and a design-based learning concept (ODL), which together overcome the aforementioned issues. Odesys is a pure act of open design integration to confront conflicting socio-technical interests and is the key to unlocking these complexities to deliver socially responsible systems. Odesys'design engine, the Preferendus, enables stakeholders to cooperatively identify their best-fit design synthesis. It employs a novel optimisation method that maximises the aggregated preferences, integrating sound mathematical and extended U-modelling via open technical-, social-, and purpose cycles. The art of ODL is a constructivist design-based and well-proven learning concept fostering students'design capabilities to become open and persistent problem solvers. It is a reflective, creative, and engaged learning approach that opens human development and unlocks new knowledge and solutions. The author also introduces new management features such as the corporate social identifier (CSI), the ‘socio-eco'threefold organization model and U-model based open loop management. Finally, the author places Odesys & ODL within the integrative context of empiricism, rationalism, spiritualism, and constructivism to unite the open design impulse. This book will be of interest to both academics and practitioners working in the field of complex systems design and managerial decision-making, and functions as a textbook on systems design and management for master students from diverse backgrounds. Prof.dr.ir. A.R.M. (Rogier) Wolfert has worked with R&D groups at various (inter)national universities and research institutes for the past 30 years. Since 2013, he has been professor of engineering asset management at Delft University of Technology. Over the past 20 years, he has also established a proven industrial track-record in which he has been involved in the design and management of various types of infrastructure. He considers both the ‘outer'observation and the ‘inner'experience as companions on his journey into the emerging future. Title Page Contents Opening Preface Contributions Commendations Reading guide Setting the Odesys scene Frame of reference Design, science, engineering & management Systems engineering & thinking Modeling & models Multi-objective optimisation Odesys' common terms & definitions Odesys’ paradigms & views on world and man Design in the context of science & engineering Scientist versus engineer Empirical R&D, the 4-Quadrant model Values of science & engineering Con-science, the extended 4-Quadrant model Open-ended Odesys research questions Managing the service provider organization Socio-eco purpose, the quality of service concept Social laws & principles, a basis for Odesys Open loops management, an act of U-ncovering Designing to best fit for common purpose Common socio-eco interests, the design tY model Open designing, an act of U-ncovering Mathematical modeling design & decision problems Multi-criteria decision analysis & preference function modeling Single- & multi-objective design optimisation Conspection & curiosity Odesys methodology and applications Socio-technical systems design & integration Odesys' methodology & significance Odesys' mathematical formulation Threefold modeling framework & the Odesys' U IMAP & the Preferendus Formative Odesys examples Bridge design (revisited) Shopping mall (linear & non-linear) Supermarket (non-linear & non-monotonic) Summative Odesys applications Open-ended Odesys' U Norwegian light rail German power transmission line Dutch rail level crossing South Korean floating wind farm Educating the Odesys engineer The art of Open Design Learning Positioning the Odesys engineer Open Design Learning (ODL) concept ODL, an act of U-nlocking Open end Conspection & outreach Connect Appendices Research & Development Methods Linear versus non-linear optimisation Linear optimisation algorithms Non-linear optimisation algorithms Preferendus Genetic Algorithm Normalized scores Rank reversal Modifications to the ga A-priori versus a-posteriori methods A-posteriori methods A-priori methods Choice matrix algorithms Bibliography About the author