Hello,
Offlist, Ken has asked me about my use of the word 'common' in regard to his post. Obviously what I wrote wasn't clear enough.
My comment that Ken's analysis was 'common' to others was about his focus on product design as a surrogate for design activity in general (not that the specifics of his analysis were common to others).
It was in this context of avoiding the common focus on product design and graphic design that my analysis was indicating that:
1. Fields of design such as Information Systems Design, MIS, Urban Design and the hundreds of fields of Engineering Design have well established theories, processes and procedures for addressing participatory design issues some going back a couple of hundred years.
2. Somehow these are overlooked in many areas of design and there is an attempt to reinvent them in a more simplistic manner.
As an aside, for Scandanavian developments, has anyone looked at the historical foundations of such developments from the historical flow of theory and knowledge on design from Russia into Scandanavia that influenced design theory and participative design ideas?
I'm thinking of precursors of Vigotsky, Leont'ev, Luria and others whose knowledge followed that northern arc of transmission. Its also interesting, as Jinan has raised, that studying children has offered substantial understanding of improving design as many design theories including those of Activity Theory, ANT and Flow developed their design theories on the basis of their study of children.
Best wishes,
Terry
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