TtaaPosterBigPicture

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(Poster from OT2001 session ToTrainAnArchitect)

See the big picture

• Domain knowledge

• Acquire through experience as developer
• Understand failures

• Learn to fly/paragliding

• Higher level of abstraction

• Target practice

• Hitting the mark

• Orienteering

• Finding the route to where you want to go

• Rock-climbing

• Delegation, trust

• Team coaching (e.g. football)

• Build skills in others, motivate
• Teamwork

Annotations

Question - Target practice - how does this help? Answer - focus

Rock-climbing - this is about team building - but also strategy

Commentary

The 'Target Practice' thing is interesting. I'd like to tie this in with system simulation and make both facets of a more general activity, which we might call 'play' - dedicating attention to limited tasks with self-imposed constraints and a tractable set of materials in pursuit of an abstract goal (not even that - pure exploratory play, to develop a sense of the possibilities of the materials at hand, is important). All sorts of sports, games, simulations, role-plays fall into this category: the benefit to the (developing) architect is likely to be in exposure to large numbers of systems, representations, consequences of actions.