Derek,
I agree completely. Nothing stimulates my "creativity" like a whole bunch
of analysis.
Sidebar: I love the humility quote. I've checked around (i.e. Google) but
can't find an attribution. Does anyone know who came up with it?
Cheers.
Fil
On 30 March 2011 07:26, Derek Miller <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Dear Fil,
>
> Not a Buddhist, and don't even play one on TV, so I can't answer that. But
> as for a scientist: Yes! It's identical. Staring at a white board (or black
> board, if you're old enough) and wondering "how do i answer that? Is that
> even the right question?" or simply (ala Dr. Suess), "How do we get from
> here to there, what do we do?" is the nature of the task.
>
> This why Tim Brown is wrong is thinking that "creative" thought is
> inherently different from "analytical" thought, and we need to shift from
> the latter to the former with "design thinking" to unlock innovation. It's a
> PR game to build theory around core business competence at IDEO. It is
> living proof of what we often call the political economy of knowledge.
>
> Coming up with an appropriate research design for valid analysis is an
> INCREDIBLY creative task. And teaching research design is also hard for that
> reason. We can explain standards, criteria, and grounds for claims (as well
> as techniques, methods, approaches), but in the end, it requires a stroke of
> insight to:
>
> 1. Drill for ice core in the arctic to find trapped ancient gases to map
> CO2 over millennia as an answer to "where is there falsifiable proof of
> climate change?"
>
> 2. To examine the teeth of elephants for mineral deposits to track
> atmospheric conditions
>
> 3. To use the exacting rate of growth in stalactites to compare it to the
> data from carbon 14 dating to provide the rate of variance and therefore
> shift the entire paleontological calendar as a seismic shift for the
> discipline…
>
> … and the list goes on and on and on. Whoever doesn't think this is a
> creative act is simply mad. It is just creativity in response to a different
> set of constraints (scientific ones about claims) as opposed to other sorts
> of constraints.
>
> Of course this is designing. Which is why scientists are wondering what all
> the fuss is about.
>
> I'm not saying that design doesn't indeed offer something new. I'm openly
> exploring what that is and I don't know. But it lacks humility as a field. I
> once read a pithy comment in a self book at the check out stand. It said,
> "Be humble, a lot was accomplished before you were born." Not bad advice for
> "design thinkers."
>
> d.
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