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ENE 62000: Design Cognition and Learning

This guide includes helpful information and resources for students taking ENE 620.

Readings

Read (visual cognition -> sketching):

Thinking with Sketches
Tversky, B. and Suwa, M. (2009). In A. Markman and K. Wood (eds), Tools for Innovation (Chapter 4, pp. 75-84). London: Oxford Scholarship Online.
The dialectics of sketching
Goldschmidt, G. (1991). Creativity Research Journal, 4(2), pp 123-143.

Read one (objects as "cognitive artifacts" -> interaction, discourse, boundary objects):

Prototypes and the Politics of the Artefact: visual Explorations of Design Interactions in Teaching Spaces
[Artifacts shape interactions] Groen, C., McNair, L.D. and Paretti, M.C. (2016). CoDesign, 12(1), pp. 39-54.

Everyday Engineering by Dominique Vinck (Editor); Eric Blanco (Contribution by)
Call Number: TA157 .I47513 2003
ISBN: 0262220652
Publication Date: 2003-04-08
[Artifacts as mediators in collaborative work] Blanco, E. (2003). “Rough drafts: Revealing and mediating design.” In D. Vinck (ed), Cambridge: MIT Press. [In the pdf, this is the second chapter.]

Gestures Orchestrating the Multimodal Development of Ideas in Educational Design Team Meetings
[Gestures as artifacts] Wardak, D. (2016). Design Studies, 47, pp. 1-22.
Flexible Sketches and Inflexible Data Bases: Visual Communication, Conscription Devices, and Boundary Objects in Design Engineering
[Artifacts as boundary objects] Henderson, K. (1991). Science, Technology, & Human Values, 16(4), 448-473.