Consider design research – is it a discipline or no? Consider design researchers – researchers or are we really design consultants? A discipline has a body of knowledge, and a clear way of contributing to literature so that we know what we know. A real discipline has a theoretical base, and ways of using that . . . → Read More: Experience research: Making Sense of Sensemakers?
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Dr. Brenda Dervin presented a lecture and workshop at University of Toronto’s KMDI, kicking off the Making Sense Of series led by professor Peter Pennefather, KMDI outreach director. Peter and I hosted Brenda as befitting this first session in a series of workshops on “how we make sense” in several different domains. What’s new is the . . . → Read More: Making Sense of Sensemaking Designers and people in the caring professions may have different and valid ways to think about caring and systems. On the Wenovski design community a wide-ranging discussion involves the question of designing “systems that care.” I take a position that we can care for systems practices, but systems will not perform as caring agents. (We could . . . → Read More: What is our “Standard of Care” for Design? Posted from Designing for Care blog on the Rosenfeld site. Designing for Care introduces the framing, if not the framework yet, of integrating design practices within healthcare as a legitimate practice of care. We are already both direct and complementary healthcare professionals. We care and provide care, both personally and professionally. There are many notions of care we . . . → Read More: Designing for Circles of Care Reposted from the Rosenfeld book site / author blog. I am inviting experienced designers (and professionals and administrators) to review and advise the course of a new book, Design for Care. Interested and interesting people can register on the book’s community site at designforcare.com. Healthcare is a sector of complex interconnected systems. If we act only on the . . . → Read More: Designing for Care |
Blogs have evolved into several popular forms - mine is an old-school online publication of written works in progress. While the topics range widely, they reveal my interest in understanding the emerging social meaning of technology in use, finding better ways of designing for knowledge and organizational practices, and progressive interpretations of systemic innovation. The title is meaningful - I see design processes as dialogic. Not just iterative, but design as languaging, both verbal & visual. We co-create & co-interpret in shared languages. A dialogic orientation requires we discover and appreciate the perspectives of all participants in a socio-technical system. Dialogue is performative designing - it requires both discipline and improvisation, to enable emergence of new meaning in human systems. We hold these dialogues every 2nd Wednesday in Toronto: Realize that dialogue has occurred when speaking leads to a new state of mutual understanding, and right action arises. This is also the purpose of designing. |
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