{"id":1078,"date":"2012-06-27T15:25:39","date_gmt":"2012-06-27T19:25:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idd.stojmirovic.org\/?p=1078"},"modified":"2012-06-27T15:25:39","modified_gmt":"2012-06-27T19:25:39","slug":"meredith-davis-article","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idd.stojmirovic.com\/?p=1078","title":{"rendered":"Meredith Davis \u2014 Article"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Article Title: Design&#8217;s Inherent Interdisciplinarity<\/p>\n<p>Link to pdf:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/idd.stojmirovic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Davis_interdisciplinary.pdf\">Davis_interdisciplinary<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Design can increase problem solving and cognitive ability<\/li>\n<li>High-skill jobs require &#8220;knowing how to learn,&#8221; a skill that traverses boundaries<\/li>\n<li>Students need to communicate in verbal, visual and computational languages (1)<\/li>\n<li>Attempts toward integration in grade schools are usually shallow and do not take &#8220;visual thinking&#8221; as a tool, but rather as a &#8220;gift&#8221; that cannot be taught. Usually, artistic &#8220;process&#8221; is equated with technique, not thought.<\/li>\n<li>In such cases, collaboration is limited to subject matter, skill or vehicle for presentation, and excludes utilizing &#8220;visual thinking&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>Students who are discipline-schooled usually need to be &#8220;retrained&#8221; by their employers to consider multiple angles of the professional problem and become resourceful in an interdisciplinary kind of way.<\/li>\n<li>The goal is to focus on cognitive skill, and not on fact-learning.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Why is design (so well suited to) interdisciplinary (study)?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Design problems are &#8220;situated&#8221;; they have clear contexts that can be used as springboards for research.<\/li>\n<li>Design problems relate to the &#8220;real-world&#8221;. They&#8217;re not totally artificial.<\/li>\n<li>Design problems are not just about the problem at hand. They are also about &#8220;ways of knowing&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>Design mockups are very close to the real thing, and can be easily tested.<\/li>\n<li>Design is analytical and synthetical<\/li>\n<li>Architect Christopher Alexander says: Design is the goodness of fit between form and context.<\/li>\n<li>Design is systems-based; It needs to exist in a relationship of users and stakeholders. It doesn&#8217;t exist in a vacuum.<\/li>\n<li>Design often requires interdisciplinary teams, and as such teaches us \u00a0about planning and collaborating and building a common vision.<\/li>\n<li>Gives example of elementary students (Hawthorne Elementary) improving a piece of land by engaging all kinds of disciplines in a multi-year process. Interdisciplinary approach allows students to model real-world problem solving in a respectful and productive way.<\/li>\n<li>Design experiences as tools for integration<\/li>\n<li>Art teachers need to be educated about design more, while still in school. That way they can use it as a cross-disciplinary tool.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Article Title: Design&#8217;s Inherent Interdisciplinarity Link to pdf:\u00a0Davis_interdisciplinary Design can increase problem solving and cognitive ability High-skill jobs require &#8220;knowing how to learn,&#8221; a skill that traverses boundaries Students need to communicate in verbal, visual and computational languages (1) Attempts &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/idd.stojmirovic.com\/?p=1078\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[104],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idd.stojmirovic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idd.stojmirovic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idd.stojmirovic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idd.stojmirovic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idd.stojmirovic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/idd.stojmirovic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idd.stojmirovic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idd.stojmirovic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idd.stojmirovic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}