Designing with the Dialogic Self: A Framework for a Polyphonic Practice of Architectural Design

This paper questions the degree of inclusivity and equity in treatment voices at play architectural design process advocates for an approach whereby architecture can be realized as a harmonious polyphonic composition multiple values. Based on dialogic ontology, examines how designer’s sense self contribute to their method practice proposes new methodology (Narrative-based Dialogic Design-NDD) that allow decentralization facilitate uptake narrative positions others.