Designerly ways of knowing

Designerly ways of knowing: design discipline versus design science

I would like to begin this paper with a brief review of some of the historical concerns that have emerged with respect to a relationship between design and science. These concerns emerged strongly at two important periods in the modern history of design: in the 1920s, with a search for scientific design products, and in the 1960s, with a concern for scientific design process. The 40-year cycle ...

Re-designerly Ways of Knowing* towards a Deeper Understanding of Redesign

This paper describes a study of the design process of architects dealing with building reuse. Even if we can intuitively recognize that the redesign of an existing building is different from the design of a new one, it is not easy to point to the distinguishing aspects of redesign and to the way architects cope with them. In order to shed more light on redesign, the paper starts by describing t...

Experts ' ways of knowing

Modern and Postmodern Ways of Knowing

Despite significant resistance, psychology is being dragged into the postmodern era. While many debate whether the postmodern era has officially begun, others argue that the postmodern era has already past by. This said, the emergent consensus is that these are postmodern times. Much of contemporary Western culture and academia is beginning to embrace this paradigm shift, though the field of ps...

Ways of knowing, learning, and developing.

The information age presents great opportunity to move from data to information to knowledge and potentially to go further to generate understanding and wisdom. As information is generated in ever smaller segments, however, and as we use information for increasingly narrow purposes, our understanding of the world is becoming more and more fragmented.1* Stunted development along this data-inform...