 |
 |
Dear colleagues, I think I see in the comments on this thread something that happens all the time: people seek what their existing knowledge and interests incline them to find rather than the essential nature of the subject they want to understand. In this case design thinking is the subject but few are seeing it as purposeful thought first to which design adds the intention to improve whatever the thought addresses.Thought happens in individual brains and becomes social only when people express their thoughts to others through language, images, artifacts, or behavior. Once expressed it is these expressions that become objects of interpretation, recognition and adaptation. Although design often encourages unusual ways of thinking and expressing things, and designers are often skillful in applying some of them, the “tools of design”are not necessarily known to everyone, even though the components of purposeful thought are. Or so I believe, Chuck Pedro: I don’t know if you are familiar with the "Society of Mind" metaphor, or "The Folk Theory of Faculty Psychology” in which each faculty (capacity) of the mind is conceptualized as a person. See George Lakoff and Mark Johnson, “Philosophy in the Flesh”, New York, Basic Books, p420. It offers food for thought about how people interpret their experience and how these thoughts collaborate and form a “society of mind”. I have a paper at www.independent. academia.edu where I “personalized" the primary modes of purposeful thought in “A Theory of Design Thinking” and we used these animated characters to collaborate in teaching children through demonstration and explanation. ----------------------------------------------------------------- PhD-Design mailing list <[log in to unmask]> Discussion of PhD studies and related research in Design Subscribe or Unsubscribe at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/phd-design -----------------------------------------------------------------