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Singapore, Sept. 2009 Participatory Pattern Workshops

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the critical resource is not the capacity to produce, but the knowledge to do it right. Problem: The Design Divide the gap between those who have the expertise to develop high-quality tools and resources and those who don’t (Mor & Winters, 2008*)‏

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Solution... (in architecture)

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Participatory Methodology for Practical Design Patterns <ul><li>Problem </li></ul><ul><ul><li>Acceleration -> need for effective protocols for sharing of design knowledge </li></ul></ul><ul><li>Context </li></ul><ul><ul><li>interdisciplinary communities of practitioners engaged in collaborative reflection on a common theme of their practice. </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>blended setting : co-located meetings + on-line collaborative authoring system. </li></ul></ul>Son, this was my dad's mobile. I want you to have it.

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Where are we?

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Collaborative reflection workshop Facilitate on-going design-level conversation between designers and practitioners involved in diverse aspects of the problem domain. Open, trusting and convivial. And at the same time Critical, focused and output-directed.

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Collaborative reflection workshop

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

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

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

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Three Hats <ul><li>Inexperienced story writers may: </li></ul><ul><li>Feel too insecure or uncertain. </li></ul><ul><li>Drift into preaching or promotion. </li></ul><ul><li>Take their setting for granted. </li></ul><ul><li>Gloss over inconvenient details. </li></ul><ul><li>Feel constrained by their audience. </li></ul>

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the cycle of design research

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the cycle of design research

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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/ 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