Sense-Making
Sense-making is an evidence-based method, exemplified by Brenda Dervin's approach, used as an alternative to design driven by assumption. The book also describes it as something that emerges from dialogue and from strong, ongoing relationships that support shared understanding.
Within the Procedures Component's Research-based variable, the book names it directly: 'this evidence-based approach is the direct antithesis of Pseudo-Design. Methodologies like Brenda Dervin's Sense-Making or the principles of Evidence-Based Design in healthcare architecture are prime examples' (Ch13 §134). Within the Observations Component's treatment of Dialogue, the book describes 'collaborative sense-making, emerging from intentionally designed dialogic encounters,' which 'ensures observational insights are deeply grounded and relevant,' adding that 'Dialogue, when purposefully employed as an observational methodology, becomes a key mechanism for structural coupling, allowing the design process and its understanding of reality to co-evolve' (Ch12 §123). More generally, the book frames sense-making as a capacity that flows from relationship: 'strong, resilient, reciprocal relationships provide continuity, a basis for collective sense-making, shared identity, and coordinated, adaptive action' (Ch2 §016).
Related in Community
Entries this one is tied to through the book.
Examples
- Sense-Making Methodology (Brenda Dervin) · the same subject in the book: Sense-Making
- Center for Health Design · both placed under Research-based
- European Union's Professional Qualifications Directive (2005/36/EC) · discussed together in section 134
- Fab Lab Insular, Puerto Williams · discussed together in section 116
- Fundación Mi Parque, Chile · discussed together in section 123
- Kigumi · discussed together in section 134
- Lifehack Initiative, New Zealand · discussed together in section 116
- Natasha Jen's critique of “Design Thinking” · discussed together in section 134
- Project Cybersyn · discussed together in section 016
- Quinta Monroy (Alejandro Aravena/Elemental) · discussed together in section 016
- Rare Earth Materials Industry and Child Labor · discussed together in section 116
Methods
- Evidence-Based Design (EBD) · both placed under Research-based
Books and references
- Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change · discussed together in section 016
Disciplines
- Systemic Design · discussed together in section 116
In the Framework
- Research-based · variable
- Pseudo-Design · element
- Procedures Component
- Dialogue · element
- Structural Coupling · concept
- Observations Component
- Symbiosis (as the Framework's logic) · concept
In the book
- Chapter 2, section 016 · Navigating the Present: The Heraclitean River
- Chapter 12, section 123 · Frontier Dimension
- Chapter 13, section 134 · Variables
Methods