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Interesting, reaffirming relational column by Davis Brooks about thinking in the New York Times today: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/17/opinion/learning-emotion-education.html (Some excerpts) He writes: “We focus on all the wrong things because we have an outmoded conception of how thinking really works. “**** work by cognitive scientists like Antonio Damasio showed us that emotion is not the opposite of reason; it’s essential to reason. Emotions assign value to things. (my emphasis) If you don’t know what you want, you can’t make good decisions. “Furthermore, emotions tell you what to pay attention to, care about and remember. It’s hard to work through difficulty if your emotions aren’t engaged. Information is plentiful, but motivation is scarce. (Damasio would say feelings and emotions) And…..(with slight editing) “How would you design ****** if you wanted to put [relational] quality at the core?” The last two essays I wrote: “Embodied Design Thinking,” and “Couple-Coulor Image-Concepts in Design Thinking,” are aimed in this same direction. In the Brooks' article, the focus is on the influence of an enriched conception of thinking on learning. I’m exploring what this more inclusive understanding of thinking means for design and designing. They essays can be found at https://uoregon.academia.edu/JerryDiethelm Best to all, Jerry Jerry Diethelm Architect Landscape Architect Planning & Urban Design Consultant Prof. Emeritus of Landscape Architecture and Community Service • University of Oregon 2652 Agate St., Eugene, OR 97403 • e-mail: [log in to unmask] • e-mail [log in to unmask] • web: http://pages.uoregon.edu/diethelm/ • https://oregon.academia.edu/JerryDiethelm • 541-686-0585 home/work • 541-346-1441 UO • 541-206-2947 work/cell ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------