Archive for March, 2008



What is the aim again?

Published on March 24, 2008

In my ongoing attempt to be more specific about what I am trying to do…I am following on from the previous post about how I was interested in designers reflecting upon the situational backtalk of their practice. It isn’t that I want to visualize the backtalk, but I want the process of both creating and [...]


What do we know about designing?

Published on March 23, 2008

When I began the defining posts, I previously made the claim that:
I less think that I am generally talking about ‘design knowing’ and that I am more specifically talking about capturing what we know about designing.
I now want to delve deeper into what I mean by all this. Responding further to my supervisor’s comments I [...]


Teasing apart the approach from the content

Published on March 17, 2008

What has continued to be, throughout my PhD, a point of confusion is the inter-relationship between the method/approach I am advocating (discursive visual essays as agents for critical reflection) and the subject matter that I explore in these essays (the tacit knowing designer’s embody when designing).
Many critics have got caught up in a critique of [...]


Unstated Contributions

Published on March 15, 2008

Unstated Contributions is the title of a paper written by Chris Rust, the paper that introduced me to Simon Bowen’s work and highlighted an idea I believe can really help to address how I resolve the relationship between the visual essay and it’s agency.
In my drafts folder I have titles for posts like “what does [...]