Hi Don and all,
Wondering, would the output of the activity of a Gestalter be a 'design'?
(Still seems easiest to define the activity of design as 'making a
design')
The idea of Gelstantung seems to be very similar to that of Systems
design. Ditto Don's description of design thinking
In which case, is what we are seeing simply an increasing shift towards
systems design approaches and away from more traditional ways of designing?
Some years ago, Marcia Salner form the field of Systems suggested 'systems
thinking' required what she called an 'epistemic shift' in a person's way of
understanding over and beyond learning and using systems methods and
models. She pointed out that it took a few years of learning and using
systems methods before one understood the world as systems and that this
change was the epistemic shift necessary for systems thinking. Until that
point, people merely learned and used systems methods and theories, did
systems analyses and created system designs. In other words, she was
suggesting it wasn't possible to describe systems thinking in terms of
activities. Perhaps this also applies to design thinking?
Best wishes,
Terry
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