Reflective Practice
Reflective practice, grounded in Donald Schön's idea of the reflective practitioner, is how designers learn by examining their own actions. It is used to check whether a method genuinely fits a new context, and is offered as part of the Framework's own value system alongside its Four Mottos.
The book grounds Reflective Practice in Donald Schön: at the level of the individual designer, 'Donald Schön's concept of the "Reflective Practitioner" is crucial here, emphasizing how designers learn from experience by reflecting on their actions,' and in the Observations Component, 'it embodies the learning capacity of design, a concept central to Donald Schön's work on The Reflective Practitioner, where professionals learn by doing and by reflecting on their actions.' It is also named as a check on methodological transfer: 'Reflective Practice on methodological fit and Cross-Cultural Design studies help here,' addressing methods 'applied uncritically' across contexts. And it is offered as the value-system counterpart to organizational closure: the Framework 'seeks not to dismantle this closure, which is essential for disciplinary identity, but to introduce reflective practices and value systems, the Four Mottos.'
Related in Community
Entries this one is tied to through the book.
Methods
- Artifact Analysis · both placed under Design Ethnoevolution
- Cross-Cultural Design · both placed under Design Ethnoevolution
- Design Archive Research · both placed under Design Ethnoevolution
- Design Fiction · both placed under Design Ethnoevolution
- Precedent Study · both placed under Design Ethnoevolution
- Speculative Design · both placed under Design Ethnoevolution
- Cradle to Cradle (book by William McDonough and Michael Braungart) · discussed together in section 127
Books and references
- Cradle to Cradle (book by William McDonough and Michael Braungart) · discussed together in section 127
- Design Methods 1: 200 ways to apply design thinking · discussed together in section 127
Disciplines
- Systemic Design · discussed together in section 127
Examples
- African Design Review · discussed together in section 104
- "Wicked Problems in Design Thinking" (Richard Buchanan, 1992) · discussed together in section 104
- Cradle to Cradle (book by William McDonough and Michael Braungart) · discussed together in section 127
- How Designers Think (Bryan Lawson) · discussed together in section 104
In the Framework
- Designer · element
- Design Ethnoevolution · concept
- Observations Component
- Organizational (Operational) Closure · concept
In the book
- Chapter 2, section 019 · Design Ethnoevolution: The Evolution of Knowledge
- Chapter 6, section 056 · Organizational Closure: Defining and Maintaining Internal Logic
- Chapter 10, section 104 · Core Dimension
- Chapter 12, section 118 · Cybernetics (Based on what?)
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