Hi Heico,
this post is so timely – I had a conversation this morning about the term design thinking and how it seems to have caught on in a big way both within and beyond ‘design’ (however you define design). At risk of prompting a definitional debate, the gist of this morning’s conversation was about how might a term represent something so diverse and idiosyncratic as (every)one’s design process (to negate the idea there is A design process).
As we talked, I provided the anecdote about getting an email from one of the universities in which I teach, inquiring about who was using design thinking in their teaching. When I asked what did they mean by design thinking, the response was that there was a general consensus (it didn’t need to be explained).
I rather thought ‘visual thinking’ or 'thinking as multi-modal visualisation’ might be how I would describe what I do and what I see my students do. It’s a slippery, but catchy term nonetheless and I am in two minds about such terms – on the one hand, they place boundaries around things that are fluid, yet on the other hand, they are useful ways to promote design in other places.
cheers, teena
On 12 May 2014, at 1:13 pm, Heico Wesselius <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> The second widely use of the word "design thinking" is by Richard Buchanan -- a philosopher. He wrote on the issue of wicked problems in design thinking. Buchanan's use of the term "design thinking" is even more aligned with contemporary usage than was the case in Rowe's book.
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