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

摘要

This article contributes to Coyne and Snodgrass's notion that design can be understood as a hermeneutical practice and that the metaphor of the hermeneutic circle reveals things that the dominant problem-solving metaphor seems to cloud—especially aspects that correspond to the lived experience of designing. In the process I have highlighted three areas in Schon's theory of reflec-tion-in-action that needed further exploration. Here, Hans-Georg Gadamer's historical hermeneutics helps to deepen the under standing of the "conversation with the situation."