Dear David,
I’m interested in your suggestion and it will be an exciting work for me.
I hope I can provide a satisfactory summary to the list. Thank you.
Zhaoyang
2009/4/22 David Durling <[log in to unmask]>
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> On 20 Apr 2009, at 9:14 am, zhaoyang sun wrote:
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> I'm exploring design rationale and many examples are from construction
> design. I wonder if construction designers will have the same cognitive
> style as mechanical designers.
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> I agree with much of what has been said by others on this topic.
> Additionally though, from the angle of psychology and to some extent
> education studies, there's a rich literature in, variously, the personality
> correlates of creativity, cognitive styles and related learning styles, and
> other measures of individual differences over the past 3 or 4 decades.
> Sternberg is a common source of major works, and nearer to design figures
> such as Lawson and Powell from architecture. Some studies have shown
> differences in approach between say some kinds of engineer, and kinds of
> designers or architects with instruments such as MBTI, Kolb, Honey and
> Mumford, and others.
> I'd be interested to see what you find in surveying the various fields that
> may contribute something to individual or group differences among designers.
> I'll send some links offlist but would ask that you eventually provide a
> summary of your findings back to the list at some future point?
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> David
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