Accidental Vagrant

What’s a horse vimeo https://vimeo.com/1091973612?share=copy#t=0 What’s a Horse AV Stack https://hnelson.substack.com/p/the-design-of-inquiry?r=asq7d

Studying  Design   mural by Julian Hector   https://app.mural.co/t/juliansmural4730/m/juliansmural4730/1602952442897/3889c84df58ccfcd83bc8e2edcb90f8405ca740c?sender=b36e1d35-5261-4006-8b80-421d42a524cd

  systemic design inquiry - reconstitution of sophia – the wise hand   https://www.academia.edu/47759411/Systemic_Design_Inquiry_The_Reconstitution_of_Sophia_The_Wise_Hand

The design process is a learning process. Learning is the result of inquiry and experience. There are many designs of inquiry created for different purposes with different expected outcomes. Among them, design inquiry is a composite form of inquiry that includes scientific inquiry which, is necessary but not sufficient for adequate design inquiry. Scientific inquiry—research—is designed to determine what can be accepted as true and real. However, even the determination of what is true and real is more involved than objective forms of inquiry, such as the scientific method, would imply. Describing and explaining things as true and real is much more complex and challenging than many design academics and professionals appreciate. That is a problem in todays complex world. Designers need to know what is real and what is true about the real-world design situations they are thrown into. Inquiry into the nature of things and events has been approached in two diff...

Design inquiry is distinct from other forms of inquiry in that it is ‘inquiry for action’—not merely description, explanation, prediction,   or control. At the beginning of design inquiry it is essential to make a reality check—an ‘assessment’—of the situation at hand. What constitutes the nature of the reality that designers find themselves in when they begin designing? This assessment is too often framed as a process of ‘analysis’. When someone is directed to learn more about a situation, an organization, a person, an event or anything in the real world, the assumption is made immediately that what is needed is an ‘analysis’. Analysis is a process of breaking something into its constituent elements, which allows for a certain level of understanding and people excel at this. However, it has become clear that in order to really understand something it is important to know how the constituent elements interact as a whole—a ‘synthesis’—as well. It turns out that it is ...

Relating Systems Thinking and Design 2014 Symposium Proceedings Editors: Birger Sevaldson, Peter Jones Published by  The Oslo School of Architecture and Design ISBN: 978-82-547-0263-5 The proceedings from the RSD4 symposium are now available online:    http://systemic-design.net/rsd3-proceedings/  from the successful Relating Systems Thinking and Design Symposium in Oslo, October 2014. The proceedings contain presentations and papers presented at RSD3.  The proceedings also contain papers by keynote speakers Hugh Dubberly and Harold Nelson and a transcript of the late Ranulph Glanville's last speech. The RSD symposia was hosted by the Oslo School of Architecture and Design:  www.aho.no.   An Appreciative Critique Summary Keynote by Harold Nelson

A brief encounter with a group of professionals interested in exploring ‘design research’ caused me to revisit a schema I have been developing recently which tries to show the relationship between scientific inquiry—i.e. ‘research’—and design inquiry—i.e. inquiry for action. Fig. 1 Design inquiry for action 'Design' inquiry is inclusive of ‘research’ inquiry, but also incorporates ‘assessment' inquiry and ‘search' inquiry. These three subsets of design inquiry are designed to facilitate wise action when integrated systemically. The three forms of inquiry support dramatically different means of learning and dramatically different learning outcomes separately. Both ‘assessment’ and ‘search’ are as demanding and disciplined as ‘research’ in their own unique ways. Design inquiry is learning what you need to know in order to do what needs to be done in order to secure desired outcomes. It is not only learning about the nature of the world, but also lear...