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Sat, Sep 24 2011 13:33:49

EuroIA: Teaching Design Thinking, Jason Hobbs & Terrence Fenn

Terrence Fenn and Jason Hobbs combined research and a very South African perspective to design education. Their research (aided by a grant by the IA Institute) looked at how we create designers that are equipped to deal with problems beyond their discipline space.

  1. vickytnz
    vickytnz@vickytnz
    #euroia Fenn: students struggle to cognitively construct meaningful des solutions faced w/ complex probs outside their discipline practice.
    Sat, Sep 24 2011 05:37:49
  2. vickytnz
    vickytnz@vickytnz
    #euroia Fenn: students must be able to deal with aesthetics etc *and* design being embedded w/in cultures, environs + machines.
    Sat, Sep 24 2011 05:37:00
  3. vickytnz
    vickytnz@vickytnz
    #euroia Fenn: future design students have to deal with new issues ranging from sustainability to info overload.
    Sat, Sep 24 2011 05:35:34
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    Sat, Sep 24 2011 13:24:06
  5. vickytnz
    vickytnz@vickytnz
    #euroia Fenn: as design eds, are we applying the rules of UCD to design education?
    Sat, Sep 24 2011 05:39:14
  6. vickytnz
    vickytnz@vickytnz
    #euroia Fenn: design @ tertiary level usually prioritise the design artefact over the apprentice learner (i.e. the making of the prod)
    Sat, Sep 24 2011 05:40:41
  7. vickytnz
    vickytnz@vickytnz
    #euroia Fenn: it's also assumed that student inhabit one type of design culture.
    Sat, Sep 24 2011 05:41:11
  8. vickytnz
    vickytnz@vickytnz
    #euroia Fenn: The tacit knowledge embedded in design is often unnatural to the student.
    Sat, Sep 24 2011 05:41:23
  9. vickytnz
    vickytnz@vickytnz
    #euroia Fenn: @j1nder - when people have probs w/ a product, it's the product's fault. Therefore, is the design system ineffectual?
    Sat, Sep 24 2011 05:42:15
  10. vickytnz
    vickytnz@vickytnz
    #euroia Fenn: what are the problems of indeterminacy in design? How can we map the relationships to IA?
    Sat, Sep 24 2011 05:43:32
  11. vickytnz
    vickytnz@vickytnz
    #euroia Fenn: while design thinking is promoted by IDEO etc, it's locked behind copyright and thus difficult to use in education.
    Sat, Sep 24 2011 05:44:10
  12. vickytnz
    vickytnz@vickytnz
    #euroia Fenn: students are struggling to create meaningful solutions when out of their discipline zone.
    Sat, Sep 24 2011 05:44:55
  13. vickytnz
    vickytnz@vickytnz
    #euroia Fenn: looking at indeterminacy (social reality (solving probs) institutional design practive )
    Sat, Sep 24 2011 05:45:32
  14. vickytnz
    vickytnz@vickytnz
    #euroia Fenn: mentioning Rittel and Webber on design thinking history t.co/flfMh5s2
    Sat, Sep 24 2011 05:46:03
  15. vickytnz
    vickytnz@vickytnz
    #euroia Fenn: history of US design, about engineering and problem solving. Concepts linked to modernity: Teague, Dreyfus etc. and spending.
    Sat, Sep 24 2011 05:47:35
  16. vickytnz
    vickytnz@vickytnz
    #euroia Fenn the initial streamlining movement etc was part of the buy-our-way-out-of-the-Depression initiative.
    Sat, Sep 24 2011 05:48:14
  17. vickytnz
    vickytnz@vickytnz
    Always find it interesting that a lot of nervous speakers improve dramatically once they stop trying to stick to the script :)
    Sat, Sep 24 2011 05:49:08
  18. vickytnz
    vickytnz@vickytnz
    #euroia Fenn: wicked problems' underlying principles: 1. Design probs are social phenomena, solutions exist in relation to social reality.
    Sat, Sep 24 2011 05:50:27
  19. vickytnz
    vickytnz@vickytnz
    #euroia Fenn: 2. The formation exists in relation to it. 3. Problem solving must happen at different levels
    Sat, Sep 24 2011 05:51:08
  20. vickytnz
    vickytnz@vickytnz
    #euroia Fenn: 4. Each design problem is complex & original and so there are no prefab solutions to solve design probs. [onion model]
    Sat, Sep 24 2011 05:51:53
  21. vickytnz
    vickytnz@vickytnz
    #euroia Hobbes: IAs deal w/ wicked problems (complex problems, multiple users, huge amount of data) every day.
    Sat, Sep 24 2011 05:52:59
  22. vickytnz
    vickytnz@vickytnz
    #euroia Fenn: it's very normal for us as IAs to start unpacking all of these aspects, and use qualitative research [token post-it pic]…
    Sat, Sep 24 2011 05:53:44
  23. vickytnz
    vickytnz@vickytnz
    #euroia Hobbs: IA probs are usually informational and esp digital, but our exploring probs usually leads to solutions beyond this context.
    Sat, Sep 24 2011 05:55:21
  24. vickytnz
    vickytnz@vickytnz
    #euroia Fenn: we're great at IDing the different types of users, and doing interesting things with data "start sculpting with it"
    Sat, Sep 24 2011 05:54:18
  25. vickytnz
    vickytnz@vickytnz
    #euroia Hobbs: IA probs are usually informational and esp digital, but our exploring probs usually leads to solutions beyond this context.
    Sat, Sep 24 2011 05:55:21

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