Sketching Sketching: Outlines of a Collaborative Design Method

Sketching SketchingSketching Sketching

Outlines of a Collaborative Design MethodOutlines of a Collaborative Design Method

Dr Brock Craft and Dr Paul CairnsDr Brock Craft and Dr Paul Cairns

© Sidney Harris

Schütze et al., © 2003 Springer

Sketching as Design ThinkingSketching as Design Thinking

Four ambiguous sketches(Tversky et al.)

Four ambiguous sketches(Tversky et al.)

Action Research Method (Checkland, Baskerville)

Action Research Method (Checkland, Baskerville)

Grounded Theory Analysis(Strauss & Corbin)

Grounded Theory Analysis(Strauss & Corbin)

Beacon Project(UCL CoMPLEX)

Beacon Project(UCL CoMPLEX)

J (mathematician):

“I was thinking of it mainly algorithmically. And I was thinking of it in terms of the maths that you would need to do to wrap the calcium interface into the [Waveform Relaxation] interface.

And then when you made me write it down, I was forced to draw it like this. And this idea would never have come to me, if you hadn’t made me do that.”

J (mathematician):

“I was thinking of it mainly algorithmically. And I was thinking of it in terms of the maths that you would need to do to wrap the calcium interface into the [Waveform Relaxation] interface.

And then when you made me write it down, I was forced to draw it like this. And this idea would never have come to me, if you hadn’t made me do that.”

Buxton (2006), adapted from Laseau (1980)

Enhances design problem solving by:

- improving designs,- supporting design process (e.g., low cost),- enhancing collaboration/communication.Sketching also enhances creativity by:

- supporting short- and long-term memory,- supporting lateral thinking,- supporting modeling,- enabling cycles of generation and (re)interpretation.

Communication & Collaboration, CreativityCommunication & Collaboration, Creativity

Dr Brock CraftLondon Knowledge Lab23-29 Emerald Street, London WC1N 3QS, UK+44 (0)20 7763 2137thatbrock@gmail.com

Dr Paul CairnsUniversity of YorkHeslington, York, YO10 5DD, UK+44 (0) 1904 434751p.cairns@cs.york.ac.uk

Thank you!Thank you!