Heidegger & Schön
Which came first, an understanding of the situation for design or the situation of design to be understood?
Which came first, the chicken or the egg?
Schön
Reflective Practice - Dialogue with prior knowledge of phenomenon that doesn’t meet expectations.
- Mistakes are preconditions for reflection
- Objects must be removed from context in order to reflect upon them
- Technological equipment can be altered and reflected upon, but it is merely an objectification of practitioner’s own reflection
- Knowledge-in-action comes from reflection-in-action; this is very scientific (trial and error)
- Focuses on ‘present-at-hand’ situations
Reflective Practice
Circumspection
Heidegger
Circumspection… looking around
- If we take Heidegger’s point, for designers to understand practice they need to first participate and see how things are done in context as a precursor to learning in practice
- Know how of design is embedded in social practice and the use of equipment
- Let things be by understanding how equipment works together and how equipment is used to tackle various projects
- Understanding does not result from instruction, but from the use of the equipment
- Breakdowns change our way of being in the world, not merely the way we reflect