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Mikko Koria
Mikko
Koria
Four dimensions in learning design thinking: Capabilities, constraints, collaboration, and the diffusion of ideas
Loughborough University
2016
Design thinking
Amartya Sen
Capabilities
Constraints
Gilles Deleuze
Concepts
Affect
Rhizome
2016-04-04 10:30:08
Journal contribution
https://repository.lboro.ac.uk/articles/journal_contribution/Four_dimensions_in_learning_design_thinking_Capabilities_constraints_collaboration_and_the_diffusion_of_ideas/9462905
Over the last few years, design thinking has been indicated to be an approach for making sense of complexity by focusing on collaborative work and interdisciplinary approaches. That being said, the concept itself and its applications still remain fluid and emerging today, posing an immediate question for education: How to educate design thinkers and what is the foundation of thought that this learning
should be based on? This paper examines four foundational dimensions of design thinking in terms of the needed capabilities, the world of constraints that restricts the application of capabilities, the nature
of collaboration, and the diffusion of ideas. The foundational work of Sen in the area of capabilities
and constraints is linked to Deleuzian thinking about concepts, collision, and affect in the area of collaboration and the rhizomic diffusion of ideas in order to form a wide framework of thought that serves as a foundational base for design thinking.