Thank you. Donald Schön is of course in already, the rest is also very useful, thanks a lot.
Brita
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>design approaches ? What is reflection?
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>Brita
>You may find the attached of some use ...
>
>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
>>
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