An ontological account of Donald Schön’s reflection in designing
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This paper proposes an ontological model of Donald Schön's notion of reflection in the domain of designing. We address two views of this notion. First, we present a functional view that describes reflection in terms of the designer's interactions with the design object and their intended and unin-tended consequences that then drive further interactions. Second, we present a constructional view that models reflection as a mechanism with a set of properties that distinguish it from other processes in designing. We describe both views using the function-behaviour-structure (FBS) ontology. This elaborates existing accounts of reflection and locates it within a uniform framework of designing, which lays the foundations for a multidisciplinary approach to studying reflection. 1 Introduction Donald Schön's notion of 'reflection-in-action' describes how most professional practice is based on the interconnection of thinking and action. 1 2 Quoting Schön, reflection-inaction of practitioners is 'the thinking [about] what they are doing while they are doing it'. 3 Reflection allows practitioners to change the way they go about solving problems; or as Schön puts it: 'In an action-present – a period of time, variable with the context, during which we can still make a difference to the situation at hand – our thinking serves to reshape what we are doing while we are doing it. I shall say, in cases like this, that we reflect-inaction .'
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Title: An Ontological Account of Donald Schön’s Reflection in Designing
This paper proposes an ontological model of Donald Schön’s notion of reflection in the domain of designing. We address two views of this notion. First, we present a functional view that describes reflection in terms of the designer’s interactions with the design object and their intended and unintended consequences that then drive further interactions. Second, we present a constructional view t...
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