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This chapter examines the cognitive structure of design methods as an entry point to understand how disciplinary bias, issues of scale, and complex situations can be negotiated. Moving from the foundational structure of divergent and convergent thinking, the discussion is focused on the underlying frameworks and location of judgment criteria in design processes. These are the key to understand how diverse methods can engage each other across disciplinary bias and scales to align design outcomes. Ultimately, scaling methods is about the ability to transfer values between missions and goals to strategies and tactics within a design method.
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Plowright, P.D. (2016). Integrating Methods : Aligning the Effects of Scale and Bias . In: Ingaramo, R., Voghera, A. (eds) Topics and Methods for Urban and Landscape Design. Urban and Landscape Perspectives, vol 19. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51535-9_13
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