Dear Patrick,
Back from my travels. I have been following the thread with interest.
I appreciated the fact that the responses involved several levels of
analysis ranging from design activity embedded in the concrete flow
of work to larger design conceptualization, from larger cognitive
frame to the activity of theorizing.
I look forward to reading your overview.
Here are the complete references to the books I mentioned:
Blumer, Herbert. 1969. Symbolic Interactionism. Perspective and
Method. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc.
Blumer, Herbert. 1995. Symbolic Interactionism. Perspective and
Method. Berkely, Californoia: University of Valifornia Press.
Deming, W. Edwards. 1986. Out of the Crisis. Quality, Productivity
and Competitive Position. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Deming, W. Edwards. 1993. The New Economics for Industry, Government,
Education. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, Center for Advanced Engineering Study.
Two more books may be interesting in terms of Blumer's concepts:
Baugh, Kenneth, Jr. 1990. The Methodology of Herbert Blumer. Critical
Interpretation and Repair. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Van den Hoonard, Will C. 1997. Working with Sensitizing Concepts.
Analytical Field Research. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications.
Best regards,
Ken
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I have received lots of links and references to the idea of a
"generative idea". I am at the moment processing these (some need to
be ordered via InterLibraryLoan, so it takes a little while...) I
will do my best to compile a brief overview of what I find to be the
most fruitful ideas (from my own perspective, of course) and post
this back to the list.
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Ken Friedman, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Leadership and Strategic Design
Department of Leadership and Organization
Norwegian School of Management
Visiting Professor
Advanced Research Institute
School of Art and Design
Staffordshire University
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