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Design Methods as Performative Objects

Brown and Duguid’s (2001) concept of a “network of practice” has been niggling away at my consciousness. The idea is that a collection of people are enabled to understand each others’ work because of commonalities in practice, but not to

Susan July 10, 2014May 28, 2015 design, learning Read more

Design as Bricolage.

The core problem of design is to use a problem-representation that can allow people to communicate the structures in their “mental jigsaw picture” to others.

Susan April 12, 2010May 28, 2015 bricolage, design Read more

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