Dear Fernando,

Many thanks for locating my little stories within the larger context of
design and designing.
I appreciate the extensions and interrelations and the list of related
readings.

There are examples of similar stuff (to mrs stuff) in Matthew Syed, Black
Box Thinking: Marginal Gains and the Secrets of High Performance.
Here the starting point is the concept, from aviation, of the Black Box.
If we have such endpoints as flying safely, in mind, all the time, we can
then bother
To deconstruct all unfortunate events with a mindful purpose.
So, keeping the patient¹s health in mind, we can start to interrupt the
medical procedure.
If our aim is 100% quality we can stop the production machines any time.

I like aviation stories.

"Aviation studies have found that pilots get so focused on solving a
problem in an emergency that they sometimes forget to fly the airplane.
In one accident involving Eastern Airlines Flight 401, the pilots became
so distracted
by a burned-out indicator light in the cockpit that they actually flew the
airplane into the ground.
The axiom ³Aviate, Navigate, Communicate² teaches pilots to fly the
airplane first, 
then navigate, and once the situation is under control, communicate."

https://www.pea.com/blog/posts/6-pilot-rules-that-everyone-should-live-by/

I have been in a small plane when the rule: AVIATE, NAVIGATE, COMMUNICATE
came into play.
It sounds staggeringly stupid to say, but pilots can forget AVIATE.
The major cause of death with pilots who have flown less than 100 hours is
Landing when they had no need to land.
A recent major crash in Russia involved a pilot who did just this.
There are cases where pilots had 10 hours of fuel and yet they attempted
to land and crashed.

My experience flying in a light plane gave me some understanding of this
problem.
The first thing I wanted to do, after take off, was to land.
The second thing I wanted to do, was to land.
The third thing I wanted to do was land.
In fact, I just wanted to stop flying.

Flying is, I found, an intrinsically abstract activity.
You need to constantly be aware that you are flying.
You have to be mindful that you are flying.
Instrumentation becomes a focus.

"Instrument pilots in particular are taught to 'stay ahead of the
airplane' to avoid trouble.
Staying ahead of the airplane means knowing exactly where you are and
where you¹re going at all times.
Pilots are always planning the next step, preparing for the airplane¹s
arrival before it arrives.
This keeps pilots aware of their position in the clouds and prevents them
from losing track 
of the airplane¹s position as it flies along without any visual reference
to the ground.²

https://www.pea.com/blog/posts/6-pilot-rules-that-everyone-should-live-by/


This is an existential dilemma. You have to be where you are not, while
being where you are.

Cheers

keith


On 7/2/17, 12:26 pm, "PhD-Design - This list is for discussion of PhD
studies and related research in Design on behalf of Fernando Rojas"
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>    Elements associated to mindfulness are found in your (and others)
>reflective contributions to topics on the list; in fact much of this I
>think happens as well when mindfulness is positioned against theories like
>systems thinking, reflective practice, multiple perspective problem
>framing, and others. And, if I understood correctly your hamburger meat
>illustration, a well honed mindful awareness skill, can contribute to
>design a very efficient product and process around a table and system of
>torture (Inacio and Gerardo, 2006), to inflict the most pain without
>causing death (an industry that might flourish with the new colorful
>priorities of a certain power nation).


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