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On Sep 2, 2014, at 2:30 AM, Terence Love <[log in to unmask]> wrote: In essence, design thinking emerged to fill a gap identified by engineering designers as not being addressed by the improvement of design focused on design processes. The whole of these origins were shaped by the realities of design technologies of those times, huge numbers of designers, drawing boards, tracing and later the use of expensive and toxic ammonia-based plan copiers, which in its early days still required a second traced drawing in Indian black ink. Terry and all, Terry’s engineering/technology-centric comments fail to note the tremendous changes in thinking that emerged in the 60s along with information and communication science, (Shannon) management science (Simon), cybernetics (Ashby), artificial intelligence (Schank), psychology (Piaget. Bruner, etc.), cognitive science (see Gardner’s The Minds New Science), design research (Archer). and the emergence in the 70s of group dynamcs (Gordon, Prince), problem solving (De Bono), pattern language (Alexander) and on and on. It may help to look at The Bibliography Behind A Theory of Design Thinking at www.independent. academia.edu/charlesburnette to accurately place the time for publications that contributed to the emergence of Design Thinking as a focal subject. Design Thinking didn’t emerge in a single discipline, even if someone in some discipline used that name first. Or, so I believe, Chuck ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------