I have just been informed by Massey Universi'ty that my emendments
have been accepted. I have a PhD in design education! . The club
which doesn't want any new members has relinquished and let me in.
When I started in 2003 I joined the PhD list. At the time I thought
Herbert Simon wrote Bridge over troubled waters' and a paradigm was a
cheap alternative to panadol! But slowly the process of enlightenment
has grown. And while I had two great supervisors, I want to thank all
the various members whose posts I have read over the years for
assisting this process. A few names come to mind though, individuals
whose posts seemed to offer more than others. So I want to thank Ken
Friedman, Charles Burnette and Terry Love. Ken, some earlier posts
you wrote about tacit and explicit knowledge helped ground my
epistemological position. Chuck, you suggested to me that I should
read Lakoff and Johnson's book 'Metaphors we live by'. That book gave
a really accessible way into analogy and its role in creative
thinking. Terry you once wrote about defining design as a verb and as
a noun and in doing so helped me sharpen my approach to definition.
So thank you all. I now know that it was Herbert Simon's brother Paul
who wrote Bridge over troubled waters'. I have learned much these
past six years.
My PhD is titled:
'A small drop of ink falling like dew: An investigation into the
process of interpreting the written word into an illustration.' It's
not available on the Massey server yet. If anyone is interested in
learning strategies relating to text interpretation through the
generation of visualised conceptual analogies, drop me a line.
Mike McAuley. PhD
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