Design Dear Ken and Joran,
Thanks to Ken for making Jonassen accessible and to Joran for reminding me about it.
Jonassen's paper collates together some core ideas and theories of design research that were common discourse between the 1950s to the end of the 1990s.
Rereading Jonassen this morning I realised I assume design researchers know the theories Jonassen described, and that the related body of theory material is foundation reading for anyone serious in design research, along with, e.g. the information processing theories of design, the morphological theories of categorising design problems and solutions, theories of axiomatic design, design as problem solving, design as decomposition, design as a social process, design as search space, theories of human and machine learning and the interaction between models of learning and models of creativity etc etc that were all part of the building of design theory in the 50s to 90s. These form an historical body of design research theory against which we can position and test new design theories.
What Jonassen described in his paper are all part of early discussions in design research when it was focused on systematic design, psychology of design, education as the 'drawing out' of ideas, the automatic design machine (automatic and autodidactic meaning 'self acting' and 'learning through its own means'), design as solving ill-conditioned/ill-defined /ill-structured problems, problem-focused design approaches, wicked problems, and complexity in design.
It is perhaps worth being aware that many of the references Jonassen used were themselves relatively out of date when they were published as they refer to ideas that were already well established and in the design research discourse at least a decade earlier.
The ideas described by Jonassen been very normal stuff for over 50 years in engineering design theory and engineering design research. A lot of them came from explorations in education research, in research into creativity in mathematics and mathematical education theory. Many of the analyses I have posted to phd-design are grounded in and assume fluency in the design research traditions and theories outlined by Jonassen.
I haven't checked but I suspect a quick look through the early Design Studies journal would see a lot of this material referenced.
Same year as Jonassen published (2000), I published a tool for meta-analysis of design theories following, building on and extending the design research tradition outlined by Jonassen. It is at Love, T. (2000). Philosophy of Design: a Meta-theoretical Structure for Design Theory. Design Studies, 21(3), 293-313. A pre-print can be found in my publications on www.love.com.au at http://www.love.com.au/docs/2000/2000desstud-metatheory-design.pdf
Ken and David and Elsevier also kindly allowed me to present it at La Clusaz - Love, T. (2000). A Meta-theoretical basis for Design Theory. In D. Durling & K. Friedman (Eds.), Doctoral Education in Design: Foundations for the Future (pp. 45-54). Stoke-on-Trent, UK: Staffordshire University Press at http://www.love.com.au/docs/2000/2000%20Clusaz%20Meta-theory%20basis%20for%20DT.htm
Best regards,
Terry
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From: [log in to unmask] [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Ken Friedman
Sent: Thursday, 10 September 2015 4:11 AM
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Subject: [SPAM] Toward a Design Theory of Problem Solving
Dear Colleagues,
Earlier today, Joran Booth cited an extremely interesting article by David Jonassen.
Joanne, David H. 2000. "Toward a Design Theory of Problem Solving.” Educational Technology, Research, and Development (2000) Vol. 48, No. 4, pp. 63-84.
I read Jonassen slightly differently that Joran did with respect to the nature of design. Jonassen speaks of schemas — that is, structures that are in some respect heuristic with some steps governed by rules, either explicit or customary. In this Jonassen agrees with Simon.
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