Tacit Knowing and Primary Generators Reflections on the Role of Tacit Knowing in Formation of Primary Design Generators

Document Type : علمی - پژوهشی

Authors

1 PhD Candidate, Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning, Shahid Beheshti University

2 Professor, Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning, Shahid Beheshti University

Abstract

A primary generator is an initial concept or structural idea that the designer chooses at the beginning of the design process as the basis for all the next design steps. As initiators and developers of design, and due to complexity of their formation for designers and design students, primary generators have been the subject of recent design research. Design practice and education demonstrates that initial studies and data collection do not play an effective role in formation of a primary generator or initiation of design because of their analytical nature. This paper presents another type of knowledge more influential in design, i.e. tacit knowing. While explicit knowledge is of a general nature and readily expressed, tacit knowing is personal and unexpressed and is acquired through experience. Tacit knowing thus depends on a meaningful holistic understanding of the design problem integrated with designer’s preferences and beliefs. A comparison of characteristics of these two types of knowing and those of primary generators, demonstrates that tacit knowing plays an effective role in formation of primary generators.

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  • Receive Date: 16 September 2015
  • Revise Date: 01 February 2021
  • Accept Date: 31 December 2020

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