Abstract
Designing for the Tension of Information and Values: The Garden as an Inquiry System
Highlights
One possible approach to address this challenge is to cast Singerian-Churchmanian inquiry systems (SCIS) in terms and concepts which are more familiar to wider audiences
We conceptualize a contemplative garden as a SCIS because, at some level, almost everyone is familiar with and has experiences interacting with nature and the components that make up a contemplative garden
This research draws on the expertise and experiences of an award-winning landscape architect whose design of contemplative gardens is influenced by his being a Buddhist monk, and by an information systems researcher whose interests include complex adaptive systems and sensemaking
Summary
A contemplative garden is a system that effectively integrates and manages the tensions created by the physical and the spiritual, and whose ultimate purpose is to offer the possibility of realization. This research sheds light on how design influences the tension and integration of rational and values-based aspects of systems. Insights and key concepts about SCIS derived from contemplative gardens and their design are discussed and how vision and information interact in such gardens are presented, as are examples of when this does and doesn’t work.
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