Dear all,
this is one of those conversation-threads where we uncover how design and design research advanced.
At different points in history, in different socio-cultural contexts the words "design thinking" will have been used in different ways, to mean specific things, and to do a certain job. Moreover, in other contexts, and at other times of history, other words may have been used to denote the same specific thing, to do the same job. And in retrospect, the meaning(s) inscribed into "design thinking" today, how were they dealt with in these other contexts?
Parallellity and pluralism is unavoidable, and to me more than welcome.
It is the role of researcher to describe these developments, and sometimes to show how and why one or the other of those "meanings" were dominant or emerged. What did Vitruvius say on the contemporary understanding of "design thinking". What did William Morris use to talk about the "design thinking" in the sense of Rowe?
We may also use a paraphrase on institutional theory (which I often use as a figure of thought):
"But is it art? What we should worry about are the reasons given, if any, for the judgment that something is art, because these arguments will characteristically appeal to values and norms, and thus will reveal the underlying conception of art." (Åhlberg, 1993, p105)
And substitute "art" with "design thinking" (some rewriting needs to be done, but you get the point)
all the best
/Stefan Holmlid
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Stefan Holmlid, @shlmld
Associate Professor, Interaction & Service Design
Department of Computer & Information Science
Linköping University
Phone +46 13 28 5633
Please visit us at www.ida.liu.se/~ixs
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