And that reminds me of the many years of great work that has been done by Gerhard Fischer at Boulder:
http://l3d.cs.colorado.edu/~gerhard/ See, for example, his work with the NSF Create IT programme: http://swiki.cs.colorado.edu:3232/CreativeIT Alan > Another interesting take on this is creativity vs. rationale in design. > > Jack Carroll hosted a workshop on this, one report of which can be found > here: > > http://john.daughtryhome.com/publications/DAUGHTRY_BURGE_CARROLL_POTTS_SEN_2009.pdf > > > > > > > On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 10:37 AM, Alan Blackwell < > alan.blackw...@cl.cam.ac.uk> wrote: > > > > > steven.cla...@microsoft.com said: > > > I've always found the following essay quite inspirational in > > > the way that it describes two different styles of programming. > > > http://www.papert.org/articles/EpistemologicalPluralism.html > > > > I agree that essay raises interesting points, but I believe it > > also has some significant weaknesses, as explained here: > > > > http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~afb21/publications/Bricolage.pdf > > > > (Their argument is one originating in gender studies, but more > > recent work in gender and programming suggests that their sample > > may have been too small and too specific to carry the weight of > > general conclusions that they draw). > > > > Alan > > -- > > Alan Blackwell > > Reader in Interdisciplinary Design, University of Cambridge > > Further details from www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~afb21/ > > > > > > -- > > The Open University is incorporated by Royal Charter (RC 000391), an exempt > > charity in England & Wales and a charity registered in Scotland (SC 038302). > > > > > -- Alan Blackwell Reader in Interdisciplinary Design, University of Cambridge Further details from www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~afb21/
