Hi Ken and listers
Can I just quote and emphasise this point in Ken's message
'The often cited and rarely read Donald Schon (1983, 1987) discusses
these issues, both in his work on design studios and in his writings
with Chris Argyris on organizational learning (Argyris and Schon
1974, 1978, 1996)'
I am also amazed how much designers have used Schon, Simon, Rittle & Weber and others without actually reading the books - this came to my attention with a masters students I am co-supervising who also had a superficial take on Schon. Interestingly, these scholars mostly had little directly to say to the newer design disciplines that now use them so often. Rather Schon, Simon etc WERE very focused on how professional practice-based fields - management, town planning, architecture, teaching - demanded a different knowledge-practice model for both research and development studies. One based much more firmly on the practical knowing and production and fuzzy problems these fields address. It is this insight which is of central value to the newer design disciplines when they try to work out their distinctive forms of knowing and practice. Cheers.
Dr Gavin Melles
Research Fellow, Faculty of Design
Swinburne University of Technology
http://www.linkedin.com/in/gavinmelles
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