1Singapore, Sept. 2009

Participatory Pattern Workshops

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Setting the Scene

• You led / supported an SCI

• You learned a lot..

• You want to share your knowledge with:

– Others in the same position

– Your school

– The MOE

– ...?

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The Problem

• What kind of knowledge do we share?

• In which forms do we capture and share it?

• How do we elicit it?

A (design) pattern

Season: Fall For: Women Garment Type: Dress Style: Classic, Evening Wear, RomanticMaterial: Taffeta

“if I copy a dress, I can only create the same dress. If I have a pattern, I can create many dresses”

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Case Stories Workshop

Engender collaborative reflection among practitioners by a structured process of sharing stories of successful practice.

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Design Patterns Workshop

Shift from anecdotes to transferable design knowledge by identifying commonalities across case stories, and capturing them in a semi-structured form.

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Future Scenarios Workshop

Validate design patterns by applying them to novel real problems in real contexts.

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Thank youThe pattern language network project:

http://patternlanguagenetwork.org

The learning patterns project:

http://lp.noe-kaleidoscope.org/

This presentation:http://www.slideshare.net/yish/introduction-to-participatory-pattern-workshops-short/

Yishay Mor

people.lkl.ac.uk/yishay

yishaym@gmail.com

twitter: @yishaym

Niall Winters

www.lkl.ac.uk/naill

n.winters@ioe.ac.uk

twitter: @nwin