The Potential of Design Aesthetics

The intentions in focusing on the issue of aesthetics is to question and utilise the traditional art based aesthetics and look into recent understandings and relate these to design and thereby address the deficit of research in the area so far. The question of key importance in this respect will be: How can a closer understanding of the aesthetics of design challenge and evolve the potential of meaning and communication in relation to designing, the designed artefact and the consumption and use of design?