Jean, Don, Ken et al,
I'm with Jean here. I know that there are those (like Terry, for example)
who define designing as developing design specifications to be handed
forward for implementation. But I know that an active interaction of
thinking/doing and rethinking/redoing into deeper territory works best for
me. Its what I mean by design thinking, where thinking means an
interactive, ongoing, material and social, worldly engagement.
I also use and welcome smart tools, but still try to understand and be wary
of their "second watersheds," so I am the one using the tools and not the
other way around. Even the best and smartest tools won't tell you what
needs doing or what your situated and "encultured" group ought to do.
Jerry
On 11/13/16, 12:27 PM, "Jean Schneider" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> But if I can speak for myself (and some designers, in various fields of
> design, that I know well), sketching, mockups and the time spent in making a
> design sustain a mental and physical engagement that actually fuel the
> thinking process. And, in my personal experience, it is very different from
> being confronted to the evaluation of hundreds of «
> variants/solutions/alternativesŠ » that would be generated by myself,
> assistants, or smart machines. It is, literally, digging deeper in the project
> itself, rather than looking for solutions. I realized that this was the only
> way in which a holistic understanding of the thing-to-come could emerge (and
> isnąt this, by definition, designing?). Maybe those of you who are interested
> in sketchbooks (e.g. by architects) have noticed that some of them think
> somehow simultaneously on the building or the planning and some cladding or
> panel or window detailŠ
--
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