20160316 - analysis synthesis bridge model - irene de la torre arenas
The Analysis-Synthesis Bridge model Irene de la Torre Arenas Information Design Theory and Critical Thinking - Spring 2016 Northeastern University
“It is in the realm of the abstraction —by thinking with models— that we bridge the gap between analysis and synthesis. The models are hypotheses, speculations, imagined alternatives to the concrete we started with nyt they are still abstract themselves.”
Analysis Abstraction
Model of problem
Researching
Synthesis Interpret
interpreted
Abstract
Model of solution
Model of what “is”
of
are
illed
to
Describe Concrete
dist
analyzed
realize as
Description of current situation
t as
realize as
Prototypes
What “could be”
What “is” improved by
Model of what “could be” ifes
hypothesis, imagined alternatives
World
suggest
man
Definition of problem
Prototyping
Finished form Existing - Implicit (Current)
Preferred - Explicit (Future)
“It is in the realm of the abstraction —by thinking with models— that we bridge the gap between analysis and synthesis. The models are hypotheses, speculations, imagined alternatives to the concrete we started with nyt they are still abstract themselves.”
Analysis Abstraction
Model of problem
Researching
Synthesis Interpret
interpreted
Abstract
Model of solution
Model of what “is”
of
are
illed
to
Describe Concrete
dist
analyzed
realize as
Description of current situation
t as
realize as
Prototypes
What “could be”
What “is” improved by
Model of what “could be” ifes
hypothesis, imagined alternatives
World
suggest
man
Definition of problem
Prototyping
Finished form Existing - Implicit (Current)
Preferred - Explicit (Future)
