Iba Lab B2 Syllabus (2023 Spring - English version) Natural & Creative Living Lab: Practicing Research Project
2023.01.10 Tuesday 23:43
井庭 崇
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Creation Process of a Pattern Language
The Iba Lab conducts research on various approaches, such as research on creating new methods and tools, developing workshops, and investigating creative communities. However, many of our projects involve the creation of a pattern language. Although there are many researchers and practitioners of pattern language globally, the Iba Lab at SFC is the global leader in pattern language creation. Consequently, you can take advantage of the Iba Lab’s cutting-edge nature and experience in this field.
Iba Lab has been developing and refining the creation process of a pattern language for the previous 15 years. The process is as follows.
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The first step is Pattern Mining, which involves obtaining information on the elements of a pattern and compiling it. “Mining” means “digging up,” and the “pattern material” is mined for creating a pattern language. Pattern materials are mined through dialogs with practitioners, and are unearthed from their narratives. This dialog is called “mining dialog.” We ask practitioners “what is important to do” (what), “how to do it specifically” (how), and “why is it important” (why) in order to produce good results in their practice.
Pattern mining typically involves talking to approximately 15?20 practitioners and obtaining hundreds of patterns of material. These materials are a collection of disparate types and sizes. Therefore, while grasping the essential meaning in each of the materials, we lean on those that are similar to each other and group those that are similar. This is called “clustering.” Consequently, we can group the similarities into dozens to hundreds of “ingredients of patterns.”
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