A model for rethinking the current vocabulary of design

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Advances in Appreciative Inquiry

ISSN: 1475-9152
Series editor(s): Professor David Cooperrider, Professor Michel Avital

Subject Area: Organization Studies

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Title:	A model for rethinking the current vocabulary of design
Author(s):	Wendy Jansen, Rombout van den Nieuwenhof
Volume:	2 Editor(s): Michel Avital, Richard J. Boland, David L. Cooperrider ISBN: 978-0-7623-1287-0 eISBN: 978-1-84950-398-3
Citation:	Wendy Jansen, Rombout van den Nieuwenhof (2007), A model for rethinking the current vocabulary of design, in Michel Avital, Richard J. Boland, David L. Cooperrider (ed.) Designing Information and Organizations with a Positive Lens (Advances in Appreciative Inquiry, Volume 2), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, pp.167-188
DOI:	10.1016/S1475-9152(07)00209-8 (Permanent URL)
Publisher:	Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Article type:	Chapter Item
Abstract:	In this chapter we consider the meta-models that are applied to the design of organizations and information systems, and especially the implicit assumption about organization and information that are at the core of these models. We explore these assumptions and suggest that they share common dimensions which can be used to structure the current discourse on design and design processes.