A deck of slides that explains the basic concepts of design thinking and makes a case for teaching design thinking, especially its ethical dimensions, in schools.
11. Design problems are typically ill-structured and indeterminate. They are constituted by
multiple issues that are so intricately and dynamically interwoven that it is practically
impossible to untangle them so that we may address them separately, and it is
uncertain what would actually work as solutions to the problems.
TAME SLIGHTLY WICKED VERY WICKED
RESULTSWHAT HOW
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principle)
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value)
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principle)
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value)
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WICKED PROBLEMS
Conceptual framework from Kees Dorst
12. The real source of innovation– breakthrough innovation– lies in the
generation of problems.
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(aspired
value)
(what) (working
principle)
(abduction -2)
(naming &
framing)
We name the issues to which we will
attend, and frame the context (social,
political, cultural, economic, historical)
within which we will attend to them.
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(deduction)
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(aspired
value)
(what)
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INNOVATION
13. WHY SHOULD EDUCATORS CARE
ABOUT DESIGN THINKING?
Surely, there are other ways to develop creativity—aren’t there?