Dear Birger, Don and DRS
Your comments and Don's response to them brought up a couple of interesting points I have become aware of concerning preparing designers for praxis. The first is the distinctions made among different types of expertise. A colleague of mine, John Bransford, made me aware of the difference between 'routine' expertise and 'adaptive' expertise. Most schools in the US teach routine expertise (i.e. training — no change) while very few teach adaptive expertise (i.e. education — reaction to change). Hardly any teach 'design' expertise which is not based on categories of solutions (typical design school departments) but on the ability to create desired change. When training someone it is easy to look for the 'expected' outcome (easy to test for). Working to help someone become an adaptive expert or a design expert is more difficult because the outcome is the expected unexpected result (difficult to test for formally).
THe concern for unending categories of design (both specializations and generalizations) are a result of treating design as a form of applied science—i.e. the process of defining collections of similarities that are stable over time. As a result we create schools of 'solutions' rather than schools of 'design'. Design activity results in 'particulars' or 'ultimate particulars' which makes categorization less relevant and much less appealing.
Using an adaption of the Dreyfus model of expertise as you mentioned is a good schema for determining what becoming a designer and practicing as a designer requires in both formal and informal education.
Bransford, J. D., Brown, A. L. & Cocking R. R. (2000) How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School (expanded edition). Washington: National Academy Press
Bransford, John, et. al. “Adaptive People and Adaptive Systems: Issues of Learning and Design.” Second International Handbook of Educational Change. Series: Springer International
Handbooks of Education , Vol. 23 Hargreaves, A.; Lieberman, A.; Fullan, M.; Hopkins, D. (Eds.) The Netherlands: Springer Science + Business Media 2010.
Harold
TheDesignWay.net
AccidentalVagrant.blogspot.com
AdvancedDesignInstitute.blogspot.com/
OrganizationalDesignCompetence.com/
On May 11, 2014, at 3:52 AM, Birger Sevaldson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Thanks to you Don for the response!
> The list was realy done very quickly and needs refinement and discussions. Your suggestion to distinguish between designers I support strongly and is helping to maintain a differenciated and rich dialogue about this.
> Thanks to others also for positive response but again keep in mind its sketchy state and i would be glad for rewrites and versions to emerge on this forum.
> In due time I will give it some more runs myself and maybe produce versions for some design directions as suggested by Don
> All the best
> Birger
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