Brita
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Regards
Johann
On 17 July 2018 at 13:12, Brita Fladvad Nielsen <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> Dear everyone;
>
> So I am responsible for a study program this fall, where parts of the work
> includes taking international students to peri urban areas in India to
> understand the implications of urban (planning) decision making on the
> 'bottom of the pyramid'.
>
> According to the schedule made earlier by someone else, the students are
> to reflect every Friday during the time in India. However, the reflection
> programme has not had any decided approach or direction and has according
> to my predecessors not been to successful. In general, it is a difficult
> task to 'make' people reflect.
>
> Being a designer, I seek to use 'design tools' and explore how to create
> deeper insights. Regarding reflection, I am interested in your opinion on
>
> What is reflection? Reflection is important in design, but is spoken about
> in different ways. One can reflect while/by doing, but it is hard to grasp
> what makes one reflect. From personal experience, I know that reflection
> has to do not only with introspectiveness but also with dialogue, maturity,
> timing and sometimes coincidence or meetings. I often see that students
> reach a different level of reflection only six months or so following a
> design project.
>
> Are there tools that may trigger reflection? Insight generation is one
> thing, but how about gaining deeper understanding, I am so far going for
> 'people near' approaches such as storytelling and drawing. The latter is
> not so easy for non-designers. Photo ethnography perhaps.
>
> What is 'good reflection'? Often people who say others should reflect
> more, may think that only their view on what 'reflection' means is
> satisfactory. But what are the frames here, are there any?
>
> How do I best guide non-design students into regular reflection during a
> fall course on designing urban interventions? What can I pick from design?
>
> So far I am thinking storytelling, photo ethnography, participatory
> observation, sketching...
>
> I look forward to your thoughts on the above, and advice for good reads on
> reflection in design.
>
>
> Kind regards from very sunny Norway,
>
> Brita Fladvad Nielsen
> Ph.D. in Design Methods / MA of Tech Industrial Design
> Post.doc. researcher at PI-SEC (Planning Instruments for Smart Energy
> Communities)
> & lecturer in Urban Ecological Planning
> Dept. of Architecture and Planning, NTNU
> Tel: 954 24 055
>
> https://www.ntnu.edu/smartcities/pi-sec
>
> www.designforselfreliance.wordpress.com<http://www.designforselfreliance.
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>
>
>
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