– and questions the assumptions underlying these two judgments.
Can one speculate and wonder?
Something useful to think about.
NYT -License to Wonder
The second misconception that comes from this “facts, facts, facts” method of teaching science is the impression that scientific discovery progresses as an orderly, logical “creep”; that each new discovery points more or less unambiguously to the next. But in reality, while some scientific work does involve the plodding, brick-by-brick accumulation of evidence, much of it requires leaps of imagination and daring speculation. (This raises the interesting question of when speculation is more likely to generate productive lines of enquiry than deductive creep. I don’t know the answer — I’d have to speculate.)
http://judson.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/03/license-to-wonder/
What is this assignment about?
Just to get a clear picture of the situation for me and your self.
What is this assignment about?
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What is Design Thinking Anyway?
Design thinking, as a concept, has been slowly evolving and coalescing over the past decade. One popular definition is that design thinking means thinking as a designer would, which is about as circular as a definition can be. More concretely, Tim Brown of IDEO has written that design thinking is “a discipline that uses the designer’s sensibility and methods to match people’s needs with what is technologically feasible and what a viable business strategy can convert into customer value and market opportunity.” [1] A person or organization instilled with that discipline is constantly seeking a fruitful balance between reliability and validity, between art and science, between intuition and analytics, and between exploration and exploitation. The design-thinking organization applies the designer’s most crucial tool to the problems of business. That tool is abductive reasoning.
http://observatory.designobserver.com/entry.html?entry=11097
Are you a visual thinker?
You can also think visually. Have you seen this company called XPLANE | Visual thinking company. XPLANE is an information design consultancy that collaborates with companies to create understanding. 
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Why Does the Best Design of 2009 Still Look Like 2000?
We ask industry for higher-order challenges, we are requesting that design students graduate with more nuanced strategic and holistic skills, but still measure our successes with a beauty shot and a 200 word description.
Design is at an inflection point. We are playing a more significant role in industry and policy. Now our challenge is how to describe our value. We need to adapt to our current role in the world, as problem-solvers not stylists, as collaborators not lone inventors. We need to represent and celebrate what design actually does, not the way it used to look.
Define design?
To design is to devise courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones.
Tim Brown urges designers to think big
Tim Brown says the design profession is preoccupied with creating nifty, fashionable objects — even as pressing questions like clean water access show it has a bigger role to play. He calls for a shift to local, collaborative, participatory “design thinking.”
How you gonna use your time off?
Just stumbled upon this video, what basically describes what we are doing now
(3rd year). It’s about how Stefan Sagmeister uses time off to rethink and experiment.
How you gonna use your time off?