Some comments on what Harold has written which I think are important.
On 7/3/15, 2:56 PM, "Harold Nelson" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
He says:
"Design inquiry is communication for action‹not just description and
explanation (i.e. design research). Design inquiry involves judgments of
value, desire, belief etc. which cannot be defined universally a priori.
Design inquiry discloses or uncovers values, beliefs etc. in the particular
context through dialogue‹ideally through self reflection and disclosure by
the designers and others involved."
And I wholeheartedly agree until the last sentence when he writes:
"This is supplemental to their objective observations and rational
evaluations of a particular situation."
I would have the emphasis the other way around, not to deprecate the
rational or objective, but to conceive them in designing as being
knowledgably in service to the "action" under contemplation.
I think that:
"Academics and professionals are too often unreflective. Their extroverted
habits of mind built from their beliefs that inquiry needed to be objective
leaves the inquirer¹s beliefs, values, understandings, assumptions,
prejudices etc. undisclosed."
Because it is the bias in our scientific culture to begin by naming and
inventorying the parts." There is a poem that goes:
"Today we have the naming of the parts."
"Tomorrow we'll have meaning."
Better to start with tomorrow.
Re:
"Inquiry into the nature and application of designing behavior needs to be
visited anew for every project unless common or collaborative work in the
past has led to shared or common ground among the diverse group involved. It
is usually the case that even groups with long histories will introduce new
members or new stakeholders, in new contexts, so there is always the need to
reflect and disclose at each new new design beginning what is assumed,
shared etc."
In education, I found this particularly true at the L3 level, where L1 is
design students learning, L2 is the design of the studio in which they're
learning, and L3 is a design faculty continuously conceiving, sharing and
managing a five year design studio program and sequence.
The need to enfold the occasional new faculty member into our regular weekly
design program discussions was always an especially useful way of everyone
remembering and recommitting to the program's educational structure and
objectives.
Of course it helps to have some, and a compatible group.
Re the old joke about the prisoners, the ending I like is, "Some people just
can't tell jokes."
Jerry
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