by Jascha Rohr & Sonja Hörster
Abstract
The field-process-model is a theoretical framework the Institute for Participatory Design developed to understand generative design processes as dynamic interactions of forces in a field. The development of this model became necessary after we encountered numerous theoretical and practical problems with the application of our former, more systemic oriented, understanding of pattern languages and design processes. The field-process-model explores the idea that a field with its forces (as used in numerous pattern languages) is the spatial description of a process, which in turn is the temporal description of a dynamic field. The model gives us a good understanding of how generativity and emergence unfold and how we as designers can foster these qualities in our design processes. Beneath the question of the emergence of new (design) ideas, the model also helps to investigate qualities such as immergence, crisis or bifurcation and of cultivation for generative processes. With the framework the field-process-model describes, we can develop applicable tools and strategies for actual design. The goal is to design in open and flexible processes that are alive and create results that are alive. (weiterlesen …)
We will present the IPGs Field-Process-Modell at the second PUARL International Symposium 2011 in Portland, Oregon
The Field-Process-Model
The field-process-model is a theoretical framework the Institute for Participatory Design developed to understand generative design processes as dynamic interactions of forces in a field. The development of this model became necessary after we encountered numerous theoretical problems with the application of our formerly, more systemic oriented understanding of pattern languages and design processes.
The field-process-model explores the idea that a field with its forces (as used in numerous pattern languages) is the spacial description of a process – which vice versa is the chronological description of a dynamic field. The model gives us a good understanding of how generativity and emergence unfolds and how we as designers can foster these qualities in our design processes. Beneath the question of the emergence of new (design) ideas and innovation, the model also helps to investigate into qualities as immergence, crisis and cultivation for generative processes.
With the field-process-model, we hope to show that pattern languages can become more then good practice descriptions as we often see it, but rather applicable tools and strategies for actual design. The goal is to design in open and flexible processes which are alive and create results which are alive. The theoretical insights will be explained through practical examples from our work with landscape architecture, community organizing and participatory design processes in various projects.
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Second PUARL International Symposium 2011
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Following the successful completion of the first International PUARL Symposium in the Fall of 2009, and its publication in 2010, we are pleased to announce the next conference in this series contributing to the burgeoning global development of new Pattern Language approaches. Our next event will be at the beautiful University of Oregon Campus in Portland in the Fall of 2011. (weiterlesen …)
