Dear All,
Just as Thanksgiving began last week, I posted some valuable resources to the list in the course of an ongoing thread. Since anyone on holidays may have missed these, I am repeating the note.
If you are interested in design thinking, two important books and five case studies from Helsinki Design Lab are available in PDF format. Helsinki Design Lab published these pioneering books and cases under a Creative Commons license. You’ll find all five in the “teaching documents” section of my Academia page:
https://swinburne.academia.edu/KenFriedman
Each of the five items carries the prefix HDL.
The books (Boyer, Cook, and Steinberg 2011 and Boyer, Cook, and Steinberg 2013) and exemplify the concept that the HDL people call “legible practice.” The book are rich with how-to-make-it-work details and recipes for the HDL “in studio” approach. The case studies (Boyer and Cook, 2012a, 2012b, 2012c) give full details with comprehensive information that enables you to understand what happened in each case, why, what the participants learned, and how they thought things through.
HDL Strategic Design was a public service design thinking consultancy within SITRA, the Finnish Innovation Fund. As a public service organization, they functioned in a completely open environment. They had no need for confidentiality, and they were completely free with the skills and knowledge they developed. If you want to learn how to work with design thinking in how-to-do-it detail while developing a robust theoretical framework, this is the place to begin.
The thread also addressed the question of what design schools ought to be and noted. In that thread, I noted an article titled "Models of Design." This article includes a model (fig. 2, pp. 144-145) depicting those skills and areas of knowledge required if designers are to work with organisations, businesses, and the different forms of process design and organisation design within which design thinking takes place. In Scandinavia, some of us include "design thinking" within the framework of what we called design, as Helsinki Design Lab did. The HDL materials show you the how-to-do-it. The "Models of Design" article place this within a larger economic and conceptual framework for design education. You will find the article in the "papers" section at
https://swinburne.academia.edu/KenFriedman
Yours,
Ken
Ken Friedman, PhD, DSc (hc), FDRS | University Distinguished Professor | Swinburne University of Technology | Melbourne, Australia | [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> | Mobile +61 404 830 462 | Home Page http://www.swinburne.edu.au/design/people/Professor-Ken-Friedman-ID22.html<http://www.swinburne.edu.au/design> Academia Page http://swinburne.academia.edu/KenFriedman About Me Page http://about.me/ken_friedman
Guest Professor | College of Design and Innovation | Tongji University | Shanghai, China
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References
Boyer, Bryan, and Justin W. Cook. 2012a. Case Study: Instrumental Design. Creating New Opportunities and Exposing Hidden Risks in the Healthcare Ecosystem. Helsinki: Sitra, the Finnish Innovation Fund. URL:
https://swinburne.academia.edu/KenFriedman
Boyer, Bryan, and Justin W. Cook. 2012b. Case Study: Thinking Big by Starting Small. Designing Pathways to Successful Waste Management in India and Beyond. Helsinki: Sitra, the Finnish Innovation Fund. URL:
https://swinburne.academia.edu/KenFriedman
Boyer, Bryan, and Justin W. Cook. 2012c. From Shelter to Equity. Helsinki: Sitra, the Finnish Innovation Fund. URL:
https://swinburne.academia.edu/KenFriedman
Boyer, Bryan, Justin W. Cook, and Marco Steinberg. 2011. In Studio: Recipes for Systemic Change. Helsinki: Sitra, the Finnish Innovation Fund. URL:
https://swinburne.academia.edu/KenFriedman
Boyer, Bryan, Justin W. Cook, and Marco Steinberg. 2013. Legible Practises. Helsinki: Sitra, the Finnish Innovation Fund. URL:
https://swinburne.academia.edu/KenFriedman
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