Talk:Design thinking

message: I find it difficult to understand why Design Thinking has been included in a course on Digital Art History. The edits made to Design Thinking in recent days have been nothing to do with Art History, digital or otherwise, rather clumsy and inaccurate. Designergene (talk) 10:34, 15 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  University of Connecticut course assignment 

message: I think design thinking needs to be differentiated against similar modes or processes which it immediately reminds me of. First off, the basic idea is that of design, which is not simply an issue of art or aesthetics, but rather means a context that requires to be analyzed and how particular items work within it.
*The first mode this reminds me of is that of Gestalt. Just like design, it's a notion that originated with aesthetic shape or form and the activity of shaping something, but was borrowed into English mainly as a word for a whole that determines the function of its constitutent parts.
*Secondly, it reminds me of totality within Hegelian dialectic, Marxist dialectic, and especially in Theodor W. Adorno's thought. Just like design thinking, they all emphasize the primacy of the totality (aka environment) over its individual constituencies and their functions, which requires a thorough analysis of totality (context analysis) and how this totality is mediated through interaction with its consitutient parts and collaboration among those parts as well as challenges faced by the constitutents. Design thinking puts feasability and action over theory, just like historical materialism and Critical Theory put material conditions and co-operation over ideology and emphasize that theory, above all, must adaequately resemble material reality, along with kindling a sense of practical, materialistically feasable innovative potential for change (Adorno terms this sense (transcending) metaphysics) as opposed to thinking-inside-the-box, only in traditional, ideological modes that blind people to realistic potentials. The iterative, non-linear approach of design thinking is close to the concept of dialectical materialism as well as Hegel's original dialectic (which, as Hegel emphasizes in Phenomonology of the Spirit, is only remotely related to the ancient Greek logos within dialogos of thesis, anti-thesis, and synthesis, but rather consists out of totality and interpendency analysis, including an analysis of changes over the course of past history, in order to deduce the function of its constituents, tell a thing's Wesen (nature) from its Erscheinung (appearance), and reveal the (polar, spectral) commonalities of seeming contradictions). Design thinking puts empathy where Adorno puts the act of Einfühlen or Mimikry. The main difference is that design thinking puts customer demand as the object of desire to be unveiled where dialectics seek the understanding of material, social reality (Marxist) or its ever-refined mental representation within the human spirit (Hegel), and its progressive, emancipatory, humanitarian critique. --2003:DA:CF09:6000:605E:C1B3:BC22:9454 (talk) 16:50, 2 September 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Re:  Why? In theory, design thinking could be connected to or differentiated from just about anything that's human, but that doesn't mean that we should do so in this Wikipedia article unless there are reliable sources showing that the distinction or connection is widely considered to be important. Biogeographist (talk) 17:52, 1 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Differentiate from similar concepts 

message: : Thanks for your edit to rearrange the sequence of paragraphs within 'In education'. However, I propose to delete the sentences on the MIT program. It sounds like a good program with links to design education (re. invention and entrepreneurship) but inserting it here could set a precedent for a large number of other programs to be added. It would need to have some special notability - as the Stanford d.school does for being (possibly) the first of its kind.
Designergene (talk) 12:26, 8 March 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you, your feedback makes a lot of sense, and I was curious about mentioning a particular program and if that might be problematic. One thing I like about their program is the intentional outreach to diverse populations. There is a small mention within the article: "To achieve divergent thinking, it may be important to have a diverse group of people involved in the process." Of course while that is not always possible, I also think there are some programs and organizations that are doing this type of work and outreach toward being more diverse, equitable, and inclusive. I'm just not sure how best to incorporate that. Thanks again!   Gardenjoy (talk) 16:30, 14 March 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: And thank you! As I wrote, the program does sound good. But I'm sure an awful lot of people would want to add their own courses or programs - it happens! - so I would say it's best to avoid listing separate ones. Maybe if there is an umbrella organisation that covers and promotes such courses (having a special aim or purpose) it could have a link given? Designergene (talk) 16:02, 15 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  In education 

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