Frameworks
Principles
Tools
Examples of where tools are commonly used in a design process
REMEMBER – there are no concrete rules about this. These are just suggestions! If it is useful for you to use a tool differently in a different place you should go for it. I have used SADIMET framework to do this but the tools would populate other frameworks in a similar way
James Turner has created a great directory of what tools he uses where / how which you can access here.
| SURVEY Client Interview – what do the want? What might be the reality of context? Sphere of Influence PMI Six Thinking Hats Soil Sampling PASTE DAFOR Scale of Permanence Sector Analysis Nine Ways of Observing Mapping of Any Kind | ANALYSIS McHarg’s Exclusion Limiting Factors Random Assembly Functions / Systems / Elements Sector Analysis Patterns in Nature Zoning SMART Goals |
| DESIGN McHarg’s Exclusion Limiting Factors Random Assembly Holistic Context Functions / Systems / Elements Scale of Permanence Zoning SMART Goals | IMPLEMENT/MAINTAIN Action Plans Timelines Budgets |
| EVALUATE / TWEAK PMI Six Thinking Hats I Like, I Wish, I wonder | WILD CARDS Principles and Ethics can be moved around to any stage of a framework where ever you feel they have most value! |