Dear Chuck,
Thanks so much. I really appreciate your feedback and always generous
support of my writing. I suspected you hadn't read the last one and were
busily engaged in your own work. Interestingly, I wrote the Three Sections
piece with you in mind. I thought I might reveal some of the internal phase
complexities of the thinking modes by "cutting" strategically through the
process.
I took a quick preliminary look at your TOC and was overwhelmed by your
ambition, but I see your intent to show how the purposeful mind is the basis
of the adaptive and creative designerly one. I think I'd call it:
A Designer's Theory of Mind: Purposeful and Creative Design Thinking.
Anyway I'll look at the TOC further and be the first in line to buy the book
when it comes out.
Re: "There is also a gap between the different points of view manifested by
the seven modes of thought in A Theory of Design Thinking and the feelings
involved when considering different situations and circumstances. That may
be a bridge too far for me but I need to point the way if I can."
I think you're right on target with this, and you know my approach is to
expand what we mean by and include in "thinking."
Warm regards,
Jerry
On 4/20/15, 6:52 AM, "Charles Burnette" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Jerry,
>
> Congratulations on this beautiful and thoughtful paper. (I still need to read
> your earlier one.)
>
> As usual, you say everything very well! You put the problem front and center
> when you wrote:
>
> What seems clearly needed now is a more focused attention on how it is and why
> it is that situations are significant, what it is that adds up to give them
> meaning, and the further development of a late modern design thinking
> partnership that help designers further actualize the underrepresented
> qualitative dimensions of being in the world.
>
> In my last two papers on Evaluation and Reflection I have tried to formulate
> how some of these considerations come to bear during design thinking. I canąt
> seem to find the right way to express the situated human connection as you do
> so elegantly do, but it is there.
>
> There is also a gap between the different points of view manifested by the
> seven modes of thought in A Theory of Design Thinking and the feelings
> involved when considering different situations and circumstances. That may be
> a bridge too far for me but I need to point the way if I can.
>
> I am about to start my book and have recast the theory into two sections:
> Section 1 on the concepts and use of the theory, Section 2 on the Designedly
> mind. It is my attempt to make the theory more useful and understandable. The
> title at this point is Purposeful Thought, Design Thinking and Creativity, A
> Designerąs Theory of Mind
> I ve attached the tentative table of contents and hope you will give me some
> guidance regarding it.
>
> Thanks for all (or any) of your thoughts,
> Chuck
>
> Charles Burnette
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