What about "designing" that is reflexive? For instance, when we look at Schon's reflective practictioner, who in "be-ing" (verb) reflective in his practice, effects not just a more "reflectively designed product". Rather there is also the emergence of, perhaps tautologously, a reflective practictioner - but this is not nec. trivial. The "product" of design is not just the product, but the transformation of the designer - provided that when learning to be reflective, the reflection moves away from mere preference towards obligatory norms, away from pacifying convention towards the attention to criticalities. In this way, design education is, the reshaping of human ontologies, starting with the designer's. Can other forms of educational experience do that same? Perhaps, but that's a different, even if related question. Still, can design (education) open its students to their capacity for gifting, apart from their willingness to exchange. Will this help address some of our pressing social or economic problems?
I'm not sure whether my ramblings will get us anywhere. But your "other" design thinking, as yet opaque, seems like a saturating phenomenon.
J
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From: CHUA Soo Meng Jude (PLS)
Sent: Wednesday, 20 November, 2013 3:35 PM
To: 'PhD-Design - This list is for discussion of PhD studies and related research in Design'
Subject: RE: The OTHER Design Thinking / Call For Participants
Hi GK
("Jude" would do - occam's razor)
This is very interesting - I don't intend to contribute, but the insinuations in your email excite me (positively).
I wonder if others on this list might have anything to say.
J
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In case you are wondering: Yes it has become quite clear to many that the era of assuming that all wicked social problems can be solved by creating more products and services is over.
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