Hi everybody
I would suggest the paper
Klaus Krippendorff, "Intrinsic Motivation and Human Centered-Design",
Theoretical Issues in Ergonomics Science, 5 (1), 2004, 43-72.
(although I don't think it uses the word "passion").
Best wishes from Athens,
Artemis Yagou
www.yagou.gr
> Hi Everybody,
>
> I wonder if anybody can point us to research that explores or uses the
> idea of passion in designing and making or any other field of activity?
>
> We have been discussing this is a number of contexts, but particularly
> learning, and it seems self-evident that something that we might
> recognise as passion informs people who are prepared to commit
> themselves to difficult work and arduous tasks. We have also been
> speculating that this quality might be more easily seen in more mature
> people. Perhaps teenagers generally seem to be more concerned about
> conformity whereas passion seems to imply a degree of individualism, a
> willingness to go further than others in pursuit of an individual goal.
> If so that might have some implications for how we support young people
> entering university education. (As the father of a teenager I find this
> a particularly pointed question)
>
> Our debate is prompted by a colleague, Bernd Ploderer visiting us from
> Melbourne University, whose research explores body builders as an
> interesting online community. He has concluded that "passion" is the
> best way to describe the motivation that brings somebody to engage in
> all-consuming training and undertake activities that risk their health
> in order to achieve a particular kind of competitive perfection. We
> also
> felt that a similar (maybe less extreme) passion distinguishes learners
> who will keep experimenting and perfecting their work as a way of
> refining their skills and knowledge. Ironically young children have a
> natural talent for great concentration, repeating tasks endlessly to
> master them but we seem to lose that focus as we get into our later
> childhood.
>
> I'm not sure that passion has figured so much in concepts of designing,
> which we often discuss in quite functional ways, but I'd be glad to be
> proved wrong.
>
> So any sources out there that might show us a way in to this subject?
>
> thanks very much
>
> Chris Rust
> (with Nicola Wood and Bernd Ploderer)
>
> ...............................................................o^o
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