- Title
- Who gets to wear the black turtleneck? Questioning the profession of design thinking
- Creator
- Cloke, Sally; Roxburgh, Mark; Matthews, Benjamin
- Relation
- Research Handbook on Design Thinking p. 46-69
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.4337/9781802203134.00009
- Publisher
- Edward Elgar Publishing
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2023
- Description
- In this chapter we will provide a very brief history of how design has been thought about, how that in turn has then informed investigations into the kind of thinking it is argued ‘real’ designers use to design and how this relates to the ubiquity of design thinking, or the kind of thinking ‘artificial’ designers use. In doing that we will eschew any long-winded semantic debate about what design is and isn’t and settle on the accepted wisdom that, philosophically speaking, it is anyone with a pulse that purposefully creates things that have not previously existed in their experience. As such we will, not surprisingly, argue that design thinking is transcendental and ubiquitous and that its lineage is tied largely, although not exclusively, to an instrumentalist and managerialist paradigm which ‘real’ design is itself tied to. It is not our intention to take sides in the debate about similarities and differences between the kind of thinking ‘real’ versus ‘non’ designers use. Rather our intention is to indicate that such debates, as interesting as they may be, ignore the larger context in which ‘real’ and ‘artificial’ design has evolved which for much of its history has been technocratic. We will conclude by suggesting ways in which design thinking might be re-imagined beyond its current anthro-chauvinistic and instrumental logic.
- Subject
- design thinking; designerly thinking; discursive design; participatory design; human centred design; care-based design
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1490808
- Identifier
- uon:52990
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781802203127
- Language
- eng
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