Summary
Design is defined by complexity, in both its practical and theoretical applications, and positioned to address the developmental, situational, technological, and societal challenges of the external world. The study and practice of design require ways to select, frame, understand, address, and tackle the increasingly complex systems and contexts of design. This emphasizes the intangible attributes of design residing in thinking, reflecting, and knowing. Design capabilities have evolved with the development and engagement of various tools and frameworks to produce deeper reflections, meaningful contributions, and discourses of design. This chapter reviews the parameters of thinking-in-design, the reflective activities leading towards the design-of-practice, and the actions and applications resulting from knowledge-through-design. The shift of design, from traditional practice to systems-based thinking approaches, is further discussed against the dimensions of thinking, reflecting, and knowing in design.
The dimensions of design.
“Applied to the matter before us: we can learn thinking only if we radically unlearn what thinking has been traditionally. To do that, we must at the same time come to know it.”
Martin Heidegger (Heidegger (1968) What is Called Thinking? Harper & Row Publishers, New York)
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Chon, H. (2022). Dimensions of Thinking, Reflecting and Knowing Through Design. In: Rezaei, N., Saghazadeh, A. (eds) Thinking. Integrated Science, vol 7. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-04075-7_22
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