Hi Rosan
Your idea about moving into the future prior to analysis seems rather like something James March might say. In fact he does suggest that sometimes we need to "act before we think" and this he says in the context of what he calls "technologies of foolishness". He was trying to engineer new behaviours and the experience of new preferences, in order to promote play in organizations.
However, when he recommended this, he did so after much thinking, i.e., analysis. In other words, his prescription to act before one thinks is a considered one, something that follows analysis.
Herbert Simon could almost have said this, perhaps in the sense that he recommended design without final goals, letting unintended consequences emerge freely (i.e., consequences one cannot predict, and hence could not have foreseen via analysis). But again he said that in the book that ran 3 editions, The Science of the Artificial, which seems to me a lot of analysis!
Jude
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Subject: Re: projection before analysis
Hi, Rosan,
Your post puzzles me. It’s a bit difficult to understand what you
mean by “projection before analysis” in response to Derek Miller’s
post.
It is truly difficult to see how you get this out of Harold Nelson or
Horst Rittel. To say that you’re acknowledging that their ideas
influence you seems to me a slippery way to avoid telling us exactly
what Nelson or Rittel may have said. I can just as well say the
opposite, and I, too can claim that Rittel or Nelson influences my
views.
Now if you mean that we project or seek a preferred future state as
against a current state, you can get that out of Rittel, Nelson, or
Herbert Simon. That’s what all designers do. What Derek is saying is
something different.
What Derek is saying is that when you create projects for human beings
in a real world with serious consequences, you must understand the
situation before you act. That’s why analysis is required.
National Institute of Education (Singapore) http://www.nie.edu.sg
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