Reflective Design: Conceptual and Operational Deepening in Project Practice
The research project aims to expand the interfaces between design practice and the academic environment. The study will be based on real architectural design situations, documented with an emphasis on their conceptual and procedural descriptions rather than an approach that primarily prioritizes execution as the main objective. In other words, this research focuses on architectural production by explicitly examining its intrinsic design processes.
The motivation for this study stems from a critical perspective: the predominance of an objective or objectified description of architectural design in specialized publications and the relative scarcity of rigorous records on the design process, its materials, tools, and operational concepts.
The research draws on the works of authors such as Donald Schön, Dana Cuff, Jane Darke, and John Christopher Jones, among others, who have each explored, in their own way, the methodological understanding of how architects and designers think and operate in their practice.