Singapore, Sept. 2009 Participatory Pattern Workshops

Setting the Scene You led / supported an SCI You learned a lot.. You want to share your knowledge with: Others in the same position Your school The MOE ...?

You led / supported an SCI

You learned a lot..

You want to share your knowledge with:

Others in the same position

Your school

The MOE

...?

The Problem What kind of knowledge do we share? In which forms do we capture and share it? How do we elicit it?

What kind of knowledge do we share?

In which forms do we capture and share it?

How do we elicit it?

A (design) pattern Season: Fall For: Women Garment Type: Dress Style: Classic, Evening Wear, Romantic Material: Taffeta “ if I copy a dress, I can only create the same dress. If I have a pattern, I can create many dresses”

Case Stories Workshop Engender collaborative reflection among practitioners by a structured process of sharing stories of successful practice.

Design Patterns Workshop Shift from anecdotes to transferable design knowledge by identifying commonalities across case stories, and capturing them in a semi-structured form.

Future Scenarios Workshop Validate design patterns by applying them to novel real problems in real contexts.

Thank you The pattern language network project: http://patternlanguagenetwork.org The learning patterns project: http://lp.noe-kaleidoscope.org/ This presentation: http://www.slideshare.net/yish/introduction-to-participatory-pattern-workshops-short/ Yishay Mor people.lkl.ac.uk/yishay yishaym@gmail.com twitter: @yishaym Niall Winters www.lkl.ac.uk/naill n.winters@ioe.ac.uk twitter: @nwin