Hi Jude: I am not a regular on this list and I am not familiar with your work. I agree generally that there are many side streets worth contemplating. Part of our task as project creators is to frame this in a tangible forward-motion way and we do that as practitioners.
We utilize the NextD Complexity Ladder as a sensemaking backdrop for that framing for a number of specific reasons. We use that ladder as it does not subscribe to previously popular notions of design as a form of magic thinking that is magically applicable to all scales but instead implies skill-to-scale, ie that there are differences in practice methods, tools and skills from scale to scale. Not only does it imply skill-to-scale but it seeks to articulate what those skills and tools are generally across multiple practices. Round 1 in that regard has been completed for several years. (See NextD Geographies and other links below. Over the years we have made and shared many explanations from various angles, delivered public workshops, etc.) We are now looking to include diverse practitioner examples in this virtual book.
If you look at some of the findings in our recently completed Innovation Methods Mapping book (see below) you can see reference to the limitations of many mainstream design processes in that they often begin downstream with assumptions of outcome paths.
This is but one of the 10 differences referred to in the original The OTHER Design Thinking presentation that served as an introduction. Thus my reference to the notion that if you are working with a set of tools and skills that assumes up front specific outcomes such as products, services, experiences, etc then this is not for you. Suffice it to say that circle is already well represented in mainstream media, in mainstream design thinking circles, discussion lists, mainstream design thinking movies, design school led conferences, design programs, etc. etc.
We are looking to give voice to another circle of practices.
Hope this helps.
gk
NextD Geographies
Making Sense of the Future that has Already Arrived
http://issuu.com/nextd/docs/nextdfutures2011_v02
When [Old Design Thinking] LOVE is Not Enough
http://issuu.com/nextd/docs/whenolddesignthinkingloveisnotenough
NextD Teaching CoCreation Now!
http://issuu.com/nextd/docs/_nextd_teachingcocreationnow
Innovation Methods Mapping [Preview]
http://issuu.com/humantific/docs/methods_mapping_preview
FYI: The NextD Library on ISSUU contains many documents. You can find it here:
http://issuu.com/nextd
You can also find numerous downloadable documents on my academia.edu page.
https://nextd.academia.edu/GKVanPatter
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On Nov 20, 2013, at 2:55 AM, CHUA Soo Meng Jude (PLS) wrote:
> What about "designing" that is reflexive? For instance, when we look at Schon's reflective practictioner, who in "be-ing" (verb) reflective in his practice, effects not just a more "reflectively designed product". Rather there is also the emergence of, perhaps tautologously, a reflective practictioner - but this is not nec. trivial. The "product" of design is not just the product, but the transformation of the designer - provided that when learning to be reflective, the reflection moves away from mere preference towards obligatory norms, away from pacifying convention towards the attention to criticalities. In this way, design education is, the reshaping of human ontologies, starting with the designer's. Can other forms of educational experience do that same? Perhaps, but that's a different, even if related question. Still, can design (education) open its students to their capacity for gifting, apart from their willingness to exchange. Will this help address some of our pressing social or economic problems?
>
> I'm not sure whether my ramblings will get us anywhere. But your "other" design thinking, as yet opaque, seems like a saturating phenomenon.
>
> J
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> -----Original Message-----
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> Subject: RE: The OTHER Design Thinking / Call For Participants
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> Hi GK
> ("Jude" would do - occam's razor)
> This is very interesting - I don't intend to contribute, but the insinuations in your email excite me (positively).
> I wonder if others on this list might have anything to say.
> J
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> -----Original Message-----
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> In case you are wondering: Yes it has become quite clear to many that the era of assuming that all wicked social problems can be solved by creating more products and services is over.
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