Week 2 recap: Designer as integrative thinker – The Opposable Mind February 3, 2009
Posted by rda1 in : 2_Designers , add a commentIn week 2, we were looking at what it means to take on the role of a designer – at ITP, in business, in public space. We reviewed a key chapter of Roger Martin’s ‘The Opposable Mind’, where we he examines the relationship between stance, tools and experience. Each of these inform our capacity for integrative thinking, the kind of thinking, he argues, that the design process demands – to get us from observing what is, to coming up with what could be. Links to interviews with him are now on the blog roll. We also introduced other ways of thinking about design as a process: Of invention and explanation (Nick Durrant’s matrix of articulated/unarticulated, met/unmet needs) and as one of storytelling – gathering, interpreting and representing information (the essence of last year’s mapping class). Hans Rosling’s TED06 video was a engaging example of complex information shown in a compelling way. That’s also on the blogroll.