Following on from the previous post I began to think of the implications of designers being largely taught by a community of embodied practitioners (if that is a phrase?) The old school way of teaching design, the kind you read in Schon’s accounts of architectural teaching, describe a teaching practice that is largely about enacting [...]
In my conversation with Robyn last week I began to directly question a basic premise of my research. She was talking about how what I was really describing is an embodied knowing and that it is often a sign of one’s expertise that the various technical skills and intellectual knowledge that comes with a practice [...]
Was recently talking with a visiting professor about how over the years my professional practice had been significantly reframed in relation to what I attended to, prioritised within my practice. I was showing him a presentation I had knocked up for students about how my primary concerns had shifted from an art school emphasis on [...]
In an earlier post I referred to how Stuart Bailey had read some of my visual diagram. What I find challenging about Stuart’s ‘reading’ of my work was that his observations were coming from his experience of information design (as a graphic designer), so could not be dismissed as from a lay person.
There was a [...]