{"id":316,"date":"2024-03-08T14:00:40","date_gmt":"2024-03-08T13:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bobvanvliet.com\/notes\/?p=316"},"modified":"2024-03-08T14:01:09","modified_gmt":"2024-03-08T13:01:09","slug":"exploratory-thinking-and-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bobvanvliet.com\/notes\/exploratory-thinking-and-agency\/","title":{"rendered":"Exploratory Thinking and Agency"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I came across a definition of human agency as &#8220;the ability to generate choices and select from among them&#8221; (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.palladiummag.com\/2023\/12\/29\/everyones-existential-crisis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If <em>that<\/em> is what makes for agency &#8211; and it seems a reasonable definition &#8211; then the skills and habits of designers &#8211; exploratory thinking in particular &#8211; suddenly become something everyone should learn and practice in general education. In fact, design ability &#8211; including discovering your aims, values, and possibilities by asking &#8216;What if?&#8217; &#8211; is *the same thing* as human agency defined as such.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came across a definition of human agency as &#8220;the ability to generate choices and select from among them&#8221; (here). If that is what makes for agency &#8211; and it seems a reasonable definition &#8211; then the skills and habits of designers &#8211; exploratory thinking in particular &#8211; suddenly become something everyone should learn and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bobvanvliet.com\/notes\/exploratory-thinking-and-agency\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Exploratory Thinking and Agency<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[35],"class_list":["post-316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","tag-design-as-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobvanvliet.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobvanvliet.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobvanvliet.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobvanvliet.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobvanvliet.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobvanvliet.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":318,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobvanvliet.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316\/revisions\/318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobvanvliet.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobvanvliet.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobvanvliet.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}