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Design science
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<p>Design science refers to a scientific, i.e. rational and systematic, approach to designing. An early concept of design science was introduced in 1957 by <a href="/facts/R._Buckminster_Fuller/fLvx87hc">R. Buckminster Fuller</a> who defined it as a systematic form of <a href="/facts/Design/kR4GNeja">designing</a> which he applied especially in innovative engineering design. The concept has been more broadly defined by the Design Science journal as “quantitative and qualitative research in the creation of artifacts and systems, and their embedding in our physical, virtual, psychological, economic, and social environment”. </p>