Chuck
I continue...
Sorry, the reply was posted without the links that I mentioned in my post
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http://design-for-india.blogspot.in/2012/07/evolution-of-dcc-course-at-nid.html
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http://design-for-india.blogspot.in/2012/07/design-thinking-design-journey-revisited.html
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Yes, we do need a theory for design action and learning from reflection to
be build on the ground offered by Donald Schon and here my model of the
"Mind Body Map" may help in understanding the deep seated biases that we
all carry from our own life experiences and culture and the manner in which
it can and does effect "Design Percention" leading to resource maps that we
create as well as "Design Opportunities" that we are able to imagine and
create design opportunity maps. Our biases determine what we can see as
resources for design action and what we can possibly imagine as a way
forward. This is work in progress. take a look at the links above.
With warm regards
M P Ranjan
from my Mac at Delhi University campus on tour
24 August 2012 at 6.45 am IST
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On 24 August 2012 06:30, Ranjan MP <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Dear Chuck
>
> Your post brings some important insights to this conversation about design
> history and its role inside design education. I do believe that it has a
> role in the modes of reflection that it can support and we do need a theory
> that can help teachers and academic planners to grasp this need and apply
> the principles to curriculum planning and assignment design. I believe that
> assignment design is at the very heart of design education since it can
> frame the way in which learning uy doing can be steered and insights from
> this practice can be harvested by the student and the teacher alike and I
> further think that it is best done as a collective activity in teams rather
> than as individual journeys within design education.
>
> This has been on my my mind for many years now and through the courses
> that I have developed during my teaching at the National Institute of
> Design, Ahmedabad, India. We stated experimenting with "Learning by Doing"
> as an institutional policy way back in the 60's when the institute was led
> by the sibling team of Gautam and Gira Sarabhai who took the Eames India
> Report and converted it into a programme of action along with a highly
> motivated and committed faculty and student team. For this Gautam Sarabhai
> drafted and shared a seminal document titled "NID - Internal Organisation,
> Structure and Culture: September 1972" and you can download this from my
> Dropbox link here.
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> https://www.dropbox.com/s/vq1gdykpudt3rej/NID%20-%20Int%20Org%20Str%20%26%20Culture.pdf
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> Seen along with the Eames India Report that was the vision document one
> can feel the power of design through a culture of reflection and action.
>
> My own work in design education has been documented on my blog "Design for
> India" and several papers that are available for download from here and two
> recent posts try to reflect of our design education experiments
> particularly in the area of design thinking that I developed in a course
> called "Design Concepts and Concerns" see these posts at these two links
> below.
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> On 24 August 2012 02:19, Charles Burnette <[log in to unmask]>wrote:
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>> Terry, Don, Kari and colleagues,
>>
>> I agree with Terry, Don and Kari that we need to rethink how knowledge of
>> design history is developed, delivered, and acquired. But Terry's
>> proposition has a severe weakness. Where is the theory to guide learning by
>> doing in design education? Where are the general principles? Where is
>> designing conceptually specified enough that the model can be validated, or
>> built upon?
>>
>> There are scattered opinions, practices, methods, techniques, strategies
>> and some empirical evidence, but, unless I've missed something, there is
>> no theory sufficiently comprehensive or operational enough to support the
>> incidental learning of design history as it could and should occur. Chris
>> Alexander's Pattern Language and Case Based Reasoning (Kolodner) are among
>> the few approaches that have systematically linked prior situated knowledge
>> to future design decisions.
>>
>> I have worked over the years to build a theory that is comprehensive and
>> testable ("A theory of Design Thinking" and related papers) and have
>> demonstrated its use in situated learning and doing (
>> www.idesignthinking.com) I know of no other general theory with the
>> potential to support Terry's view of the future importance of theory in
>> Design Education, or one operational enough to support learning and doing
>> beyond the studio or laboratory. In A Theory of Design Thinking, Reflective
>> thought recalls and applies knowledge gained through experience, culture,
>> and society. Although the potential is there, design history has no
>> specific sub-model within Reflective thought, the domain of memory, past
>> experience, and assimilated knowledge.
>>
>> Design history should provide understandings of conditions and
>> consequences that can inform or stimulate current design thinking. The
>> problem is to bring prior knowledge into play as relevant and to encourage
>> historians to critically interpret prior design experience for the
>> collective memory.
>>
>> Or, so I believe,
>> Chuck
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> *Prof M P Ranjan*
> *Design Thinker and author of blog - www.Designforindia.com<http://design-for-india.blogspot.com/>
> *
> E8 Faculty Housing
> National Institute of Design
> Paldi
> Ahmedabad 380 007 India
>
> Tel: (res) 91 79 26610054
> email: ranjanmp@g <[log in to unmask]>mail.com
>
> <http://www.ranjanmp.in/>blog: <http://www.design-for-india.blogspot.com>
> (current and with downloads)
> education blog: <http://www.design-concepts-and-concerns.blogspot.com>
> (archival)
> education blog: http://www.visible-information-india.blogspot.com
> (archival)
>
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