Revisiting Design as a Hermeneutic Practice: An Investigation of Paul Ricoeur's Critical Hermeneutics

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© 2012 Massachusetts Institute of Technology DesignIssues: Volume 28, Number 2 Spring 2012 1 Nigel Cross, “Forty Years of Design Research,” Design Studies 28 (2007): 1-4. 2 See, for example, Erik Stolterman, “The Nature of Design Practice and Implications for Interaction Design Research,” International Journal of Design 2 (2008): 55-65, and Lucy Kimbell, ”Rethinking Design Thinking: Part 1,” Design and Culture 3, no. 3 (2011): 285-306. 3 See, for example, Klaus Krippendorff, The Semantic Turn: A New Foundation for Design (Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 2006), and Richard Buchanan, “Wicked Problems in Design Thinking,” Design Issues 8, no. 6 (1992): 2. 4 See, for example, Roger L. Martin, The Design of Business (Toronto: Rotman School of Management, 2004), and Tim Brown, Change by Design: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation (New York: Harper Business, 2009). 5 This article relates to an ongoing experimental project where designers share their experience of design practice to “non-designerly” firms, the aim of which is to strengthen innovativeness in these firms. The study is also a contribution to the budding stream of “design-driven innovation.” See, for example, Roberto Verganti, “Design, Meanings, and Radical Innovation: A Metamodel and a Research Agenda,” The Journal of Product Innovation Management 25 (2008): 436-56. 6 Adrian Snodgrass and Richard Coyne, “Models, Metaphors, and the Hermeneutics of Designing,” Design Issues 9, no.1 (1992): 72. 7 Adrian Snodgrass and Richard Coyne, “Is Designing Hermeneutical?” Architectural Theory Review 2, no.1 (1997): 87. Revisiting Design as a Hermeneutic Practice: An Investigation of Paul Ricoeur’s Critical Hermeneutics Marcus Jahnke