2017
DOI: 10.1142/9789813226265_0035
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Design Research as a Variety of Second-Order Cybernetic Practice

Abstract: Structured Abstract Background(s) -Design TheoryPerspective -Second-order cybernetics Context -The relationship between design and science has shifted over recent decades.One bridge between the two is that of cybernetics, which offers perspectives on both in terms of their practice. From around 1980 onwards, drawing on ideas from cybernetics, Ranulph Glanville has suggested that rather than apply science to design, it makes more sense to understand science as a form of design activity, reversing the more usual… Show more

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“…In this sense, design research can be seen as a valuable approach to consider when examining current matters such as designing 'smart' interactions. This is particularly relevant to the design field of 'smart' interactions; as Sweeting [25] states, design research is often concerned with epistemological questions regarding the interrelations of designers, other stakeholders, working methods and the knowledge embedded in what is designed.…”
Section: Designing Through Second-order Cyberneticsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In this sense, design research can be seen as a valuable approach to consider when examining current matters such as designing 'smart' interactions. This is particularly relevant to the design field of 'smart' interactions; as Sweeting [25] states, design research is often concerned with epistemological questions regarding the interrelations of designers, other stakeholders, working methods and the knowledge embedded in what is designed.…”
Section: Designing Through Second-order Cyberneticsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…SOC has been shown to be a useful approach in several disciplines, including psychotherapy (Bateson, 2000; Keeney, 1980), education (Baron and Herr, 2018; Herr, 2014), design research (Sweeting, 2016) and more recently, in the arts where theatre has been used as a laboratory for experimenting with SOC (Scholte, 2016). Recently, there have been several publications that are geared towards cybernetics methodology as an approach, aptly termed second-order science (Müller, 2008, 2011; Riegler and Müller, 2016).…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Part of this contextual environment is their own ongoing experience: designers "learn a repertoire of concepts, schemas, and strategies, " and draw from this repertoire "to design representations and action for unique situations" (Argyris 1985: 81). Second-order cybernetics accounts for this in terms of nested loops which each inform the other (Glanville 2007, Sweeting 2016. In some cases, the interactive context includes the intellectual frameworks, questions and assumptions of academic inquiry.…”
Section: Externalization As Conversationmentioning
confidence: 99%