Klaus,
While sympathetic to your epistemological ‘facts,’ we should perhaps recall that the iconography of ‘design thinking’ is the wall of post-it notes. Whatever else is going on in these sessions, the least is that ‘thinking’ is being externalized for the purposes of demonstrative communication. They are perhaps better understood as creative extensions of Conklin’s Dialogue Mapping, if not materializations of Vygotskian ‘social cognition.’ While not aimed at attaining the level of rarefied ‘theories,’ they are very much attempts to develop collectively warranted ‘mental models.’ I fear you are denouncing an abstraction, not a practice.
Cameron
> On Nov 20, 2015, at 3:24 AM, Klaus Krippendorff <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> consider these simple epistemological facts:
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> · thinking is a personal experience
> · one’s thinking resides in articulations not in someone’s inaccessible mind.
> · designers need to be able to explain to others what they are proposing
> · design theories, design research, design methods, design ethics -- everything that designers need to learn to practice -- has to be communicable, using linguistic, visual, performative media, or demonstrations.
> · designers who work in interdisciplinary development teams are unlikely to be taken seriously when withdrawing into their subjectively convenient design thinking abilities, implicitly denying this ability to team members from other disciplines.
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