Hi, so the site we are visiting this year is indeed Bophal.
Would be nice to hear about your preferred readings or preparations. I hope it is not an overstudied case.
I agree absolutely on what you are saying, that ' it works best if these ‘reflections’ take concrete form'. I think that this is also a form of storytelling that turns something complex and intangible into something that makes sense and can be communicated. This way, like a story, the recipient can contribute to modify and shape its meaning.
Brita
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>Re: What is reflection?
>
>Taking a cue from Richard Schechner’s definition of performance as twice-
>behaved behavior might help, ie reflection = twice-thought thinking.
>
>Increasingly, in my experience, students (especially undergraduates) tend to
>submit first drafts/first prototypes/first readings (I teach theater history,
>performance theory, visual culture, cultural transmission) without engaging
>the complex processes of reflection and revision (we tend to couple these
>two terms with good reason, I think). If revision literally means seeing again
>or seeing anew (or possibly, seeing askance or with different eyes), then
>reflection requires a similar kind of engagement with ideas, concepts,
>theories, structures, and frameworks. A second-, third-, or fourth- order
>thinking, if you will, that suggests both self-consciousness and self-awareness
>(both essential qualities for any aesthetic practice).
>
>This, perhaps, is Shklovsky’s broadest argument in “Art as Technique” (also
>Eisenstein’s in his use of juxtaposition and montage, and Brecht’s in his
>attempts to reconceive and combine psychological motive and physical action
>as ‘gestus’, representation as a ‘showing again’ or ‘historicizing’, and social
>behaviour as both recognizably familiar yet fundamentally odd or alien (the
>infamous ‘verfremdungseffekt’).
>
>So any activity or prompt that compels a student to do this would constitute
>‘reflection’.
>
>The danger for students is they often don’t know where or how to start. This
>can turn an exercise intended as a mind-opener into self-indulgent, mental
>masturbation. One solution would require students to reflect in pairs or small
>groups, ie to have other minds and bodies ‘reflect’ back to a student his or her
>own ideas/frameworks (it works best if these ‘reflections’ take concrete
>form). Another, especially if they’re engaging bottom-up design solutions,
>would ask them to relocate their ideas to a different physical context
>(location, social milieu). A third would identify and then poke at their
>foundational theoretical assumptions (this, of course, is harder), thereby
>making them more conscious of their frames of thought or metaphors of
>equivalence.
>
>If you plan to be in India, but have not yet settled on a site, may I suggest
>considering Bhopal and its environs. The residual effects of the world’s most
>devastating industrial accident are everywhere visible, especially in poorer
>communities. The design challenges are huge, and touch on all aspects of
>lived experience there.
>
>All best,
>Framji Minwalla
>Vagrant Academic, Independent Scholar
>Aliabad, Gilgit-Baltistan
>Pakistan
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>> approaches ? What is reflection?
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>> approaches ? What is reflection?
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>> Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2018 12:06:33 +0200
>> From: Kasper Skov Christensen <[log in to unmask]>
>> Subject: Model of 'the possible', 'the true' and 'the real'
>>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I am currently trying to map my research through design project onto
>> one of the design research frameworks e.g. Fallman, Daniel. 2008.
>> “The Interaction Design Research Triangle of Design Practice, Design
>> Studies, and Design Exploration.” /Design Issues/ 24 (3): 4–18.
>>
>> However, I have been unable to remember which paper the following
>> framework model is from (see link), and I cannot locale in my
>> reference man. Does anyone on this list know of this triangle and if
>> so, where do I find it?
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>> Link to picture of framework model https://imgur.com/a/8LgKw81
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>> Thanks
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>> Med venlig hilsen/Kind regards
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>> Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2018 11:50:18 +0100
>> From: "Branch J." <[log in to unmask]>
>> Subject: Re: Model of 'the possible', 'the true' and 'the real'
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>> Hi Kasper,
>>
>> I know the one — I believe it is in Design Issues: Volume 24, Number 3
>> Summer 2008
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> James
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>> Dear all,
>>
>> I am currently trying to map my research through design project onto one
>> of the design research frameworks e.g. Fallman, Daniel. 2008. “The
>> Interaction Design Research Triangle of Design Practice, Design Studies,
>> and Design Exploration.” /Design Issues/ 24 (3): 4–18.
>>
>> However, I have been unable to remember which paper the following
>> framework model is from (see link), and I cannot locale in my reference
>> man. Does anyone on this list know of this triangle and if so, where do
>> I find it?
>>
>> Link to picture of framework model https://imgur.com/a/8LgKw81
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Med venlig hilsen/Kind regards
>> Kasper Skov Christensen
>> /Ph.d. Student,//Child Computer Interaction Group @ Aarhus University,
>> Denmark/
>>
>>
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>> Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2018 11:12:55 +0000
>> From: Brita Fladvad Nielsen <[log in to unmask]>
>> Subject: How to encourage and generate reflection in students through
>design approaches ? What is reflection?
>>
>> Dear everyone;
>>
>> So I am responsible for a study program this fall, where parts of the work
>includes taking international students to peri urban areas in India to
>understand the implications of urban (planning) decision making on the
>'bottom of the pyramid'.
>>
>> According to the schedule made earlier by someone else, the students are
>to reflect every Friday during the time in India. However, the reflection
>programme has not had any decided approach or direction and has according
>to my predecessors not been to successful. In general, it is a difficult task to
>'make' people reflect.
>>
>> Being a designer, I seek to use 'design tools' and explore how to
>> create deeper insights. Regarding reflection, I am interested in your
>> opinion on
>>
>> What is reflection? Reflection is important in design, but is spoken about in
>different ways. One can reflect while/by doing, but it is hard to grasp what
>makes one reflect. From personal experience, I know that reflection has to do
>not only with introspectiveness but also with dialogue, maturity, timing and
>sometimes coincidence or meetings. I often see that students reach a
>different level of reflection only six months or so following a design project.
>>
>> Are there tools that may trigger reflection? Insight generation is one thing,
>but how about gaining deeper understanding, I am so far going for 'people
>near' approaches such as storytelling and drawing. The latter is not so easy for
>non-designers. Photo ethnography perhaps.
>>
>> What is 'good reflection'? Often people who say others should reflect more,
>may think that only their view on what 'reflection' means is satisfactory. But
>what are the frames here, are there any?
>>
>> How do I best guide non-design students into regular reflection during a fall
>course on designing urban interventions? What can I pick from design?
>>
>> So far I am thinking storytelling, photo ethnography, participatory
>observation, sketching...
>>
>> I look forward to your thoughts on the above, and advice for good reads on
>reflection in design.
>>
>>
>> Kind regards from very sunny Norway,
>>
>> Brita Fladvad Nielsen
>> Ph.D. in Design Methods / MA of Tech Industrial Design Post.doc.
>> researcher at PI-SEC (Planning Instruments for Smart Energy
>> Communities) & lecturer in Urban Ecological Planning Dept. of
>> Architecture and Planning, NTNU
>> Tel: 954 24 055
>>
>> https://www.ntnu.edu/smartcities/pi-sec
>>
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>> Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2018 11:28:42 -0700
>> From: george slavik <[log in to unmask]>
>> Subject: Re: How to encourage and generate reflection in students through
>design approaches ? What is reflection?
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I think that your storytelling, photography, observation, sketching
>> approaches are good tools. It sounds like it would be good to give the
>> students some sort of framework in order to focus their thinking. I've
>> used Edward de Bono's Six Thinking Hats in classes before, in order to
>> get students to pay attention to different parts of analysis:
>> http://www.debonogroup.com/six_thinking_hats.php
>>
>> There are many ways you could apply the tool creatively. You could
>> assign a "hat" each week and have students collect by focussing on
>> that particular hat only. If you have a "home base" classroom, you
>> could map out the hats and have the collected photos, post-its, sketches,
>etc sorted onto a wall.
>> You could break the class into teams based on each hat. You could also
>> have each student run through each hat individually during a timed
>> exercise every week. There are lots of ways to use the idea creatively.
>>
>> The hats can be a bit cumbersome and feel a little unnatural at first,
>> but what I like about them is that they end up generating a lot more
>discussion.
>>
>> I hope it helps. It sounds like a great class.
>>
>>
>>
>> [g]
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 4:13 AM Brita Fladvad Nielsen
>> <[log in to unmask]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear everyone;
>>>
>>> So I am responsible for a study program this fall, where parts of the
>>> work includes taking international students to peri urban areas in
>>> India to understand the implications of urban (planning) decision
>>> making on the 'bottom of the pyramid'.
>>>
>>> According to the schedule made earlier by someone else, the students
>>> are to reflect every Friday during the time in India. However, the
>>> reflection programme has not had any decided approach or direction
>>> and has according to my predecessors not been to successful. In
>>> general, it is a difficult task to 'make' people reflect.
>>>
>>> Being a designer, I seek to use 'design tools' and explore how to
>>> create deeper insights. Regarding reflection, I am interested in your
>>> opinion on
>>>
>>> What is reflection? Reflection is important in design, but is spoken
>>> about in different ways. One can reflect while/by doing, but it is
>>> hard to grasp what makes one reflect. From personal experience, I
>>> know that reflection has to do not only with introspectiveness but
>>> also with dialogue, maturity, timing and sometimes coincidence or
>>> meetings. I often see that students reach a different level of
>>> reflection only six months or so following a design project.
>>>
>>> Are there tools that may trigger reflection? Insight generation is
>>> one thing, but how about gaining deeper understanding, I am so far
>>> going for 'people near' approaches such as storytelling and drawing.
>>> The latter is not so easy for non-designers. Photo ethnography perhaps.
>>>
>>> What is 'good reflection'? Often people who say others should reflect
>>> more, may think that only their view on what 'reflection' means is
>>> satisfactory. But what are the frames here, are there any?
>>>
>>> How do I best guide non-design students into regular reflection
>>> during a fall course on designing urban interventions? What can I pick from
>design?
>>>
>>> So far I am thinking storytelling, photo ethnography, participatory
>>> observation, sketching...
>>>
>>> I look forward to your thoughts on the above, and advice for good
>>> reads on reflection in design.
>>>
>>>
>>> Kind regards from very sunny Norway,
>>>
>>> Brita Fladvad Nielsen
>>> Ph.D. in Design Methods / MA of Tech Industrial Design Post.doc.
>>> researcher at PI-SEC (Planning Instruments for Smart Energy
>>> Communities)
>>> & lecturer in Urban Ecological Planning Dept. of Architecture and
>>> Planning, NTNU
>>> Tel: 954 24 055
>>>
>>> https://www.ntnu.edu/smartcities/pi-sec
>>>
>>> www.designforselfreliance.wordpress.com<
>>> http://www.designforselfreliance.wordpress.com/>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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