Archive for May, 2008



Visualizing the invisible

Published on May 15, 2008

In the previous post I was writing about Schön’s paper The Theory of Inquiry: Dewey’s Legacy to Education. Toward the end the paper touches on the relationship between designing and learning: making the claim that “designing and discovering are closely coupled forms of inquiry.” (p131) The claim is simply that the design process “opens up [...]


Reflective conversation with the situation…

Published on May 1, 2008

I had a conversation with Cameron awhile back where I was attempting to define my research in relation to the different ways business people (D. Pink) and scholars (C. Owen, N. Cross) talk about design thinking. It was easy to describe how I thought my research sought a more situated engagement with how designer’s work [...]