Drawing on Nickles: Design tasks in the light of the philosophical analysis of problems

Harfield, S

Drawing on Nickles: Design tasks in the light of the philosophical analysis of problems

Harfield, S

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Publisher:: University of New South Wales
Publication Type:: Conference Proceeding
Citation:: ConnectED 2010: International Conference on Design Education at Sydney, 2010, pp. 1 - 5
Issue Date:: 2010-01

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dc.contributor.author	Harfield, S	en_US
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dc.date	2010-06-28	en_US
dc.date.issued	2010-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	ConnectED 2010: International Conference on Design Education at Sydney, 2010, pp. 1 - 5	en_US
dc.identifier.isbn	978-0-646-54506-6	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/16601
dc.description.abstract	It is now approaching 30 years since the publication of Thomas Nickles classic paper `What is a problem that we may solve it? [1981]. While directed specifically at philosophy of science and epistemology, Nickles observations on and speculations about the nature of problems offer a particular and potentially informative vantage point for [re]viewing so-called design problems. Having previously declared my discomfort with the conventional `design = problem solving view of design activity, yet having elected, pro tem, to retain the problem/solution language frame in order more easily to demonstrate that conventional wisdom has misunderstood just what problem it is that the designer `solves [Harfield 2007a; 2007b], the current paper revisits the question of `what is a problem from a more fundamental level.	en_US
dc.publisher	University of New South Wales	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	ConnectED 2010: International Conference on Design Education at Sydney	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	ConnectED: International Conference on Design Education	en_US
dc.title	Drawing on Nickles: Design tasks in the light of the philosophical analysis of problems	en_US
dc.type	Conference Proceeding
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Abstract:

It is now approaching 30 years since the publication of Thomas Nickles classic paper `What is a problem that we may solve it? [1981]. While directed specifically at philosophy of science and epistemology, Nickles observations on and speculations about the nature of problems offer a particular and potentially informative vantage point for [re]viewing so-called design problems. Having previously declared my discomfort with the conventional `design = problem solving view of design activity, yet having elected, pro tem, to retain the problem/solution language frame in order more easily to demonstrate that conventional wisdom has misunderstood just what problem it is that the designer `solves [Harfield 2007a; 2007b], the current paper revisits the question of `what is a problem from a more fundamental level.

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