Design Thinking: Governing Inter-Domain Thinking for Tackling the Anthropocene
- Submitting institution
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Royal College of Art(The)
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- Hall3
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1080/14606925.2019.1693211
- Title of journal
- The Design Journal
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- First page
- 71
- Volume
- 23
- Issue
- 1
- ISSN
- 1460-6925
- Open access status
- Exception within 3 months of publication
- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2019
- URL
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https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14606925.2019.1693211?journalCode=rfdj20
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This research develops a trajectory through C.P. Snow's influential 'Two Cultures' lecture at Cambridge University in 1959 through to Bruce Archer's assertion that design is the third culture of thinking in 1978. It then positions how design thinking can contribute at a domain level to tackling contemporary issues of the Anthropocene. After describing the separation of the three cultures of thinking, it considers different concepts for the third culture and how it may interact with the others. The core domain level practices of thinking cultures in the sciences, arts and humanities are explored and an argument is made to position Archers’s 'wroughting and wrighting' as the key domain level practices for design. This leads to the proposal of a temporal model of knowledge production and collaboration across the three thinking domains. The value of governing and its application across domains is discussed and a conceptual model for how an inter-domain collaboration can address some of the problems of the Anthropocene is developed. This research makes a significant contribution to the argument for design as a third culture of thinking (building on CP Snow), the theoretical temporal knowledge generation positioning of design in relation to the other domains (building on Simon, Chris Jones and Glanville) and unites these by combining Bruce Archer’s under-explored proposition of wroughting and wrighting as the core practices of design, using a second order cybernetic model for governing. The fundamental contribution of this research is in explaining at a meta-level how design can collaborate with different types of knowledge production in the sciences and the arts and humanities in a collaboratively governed model to restore human activity to a level where we can successfully sustain our environment in the future.
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- Non-English
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