Adrian Ratkic

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Dialogseminariets forskningsmiljö

THIS STUDY EXPLORES the application of the dialogue seminar method within a doctoral programme KTH Advanced Programme in Reflective Practice of the research area of Skill and technology at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm. In order to understand distinctive features of the dialogue seminar method the study starts with a survey of how the method and its spirit were affected by the history of ideas related to the research area, of which many were generated within the intellectual milieu gathered around the Dialogue seminar of the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm and cultural journal Dialoger. The dialogue seminar method stands for a well thought out idea about what the link between skills, literature, philosophy, history of ideas, art and science is made up of. This idea is expressed in the way the dialogue is conducted; various topics are explored through associations, digressions and deviations form the subject. This indirect approach to reflection is called analogical thinking in contrast to the thinking based on deduction or induction. Analogical thinking prevails in judgement and action. It is also of great significance in e.g. development projects, in arts, all sorts of problem-solving, and those phases of research that call for inventiveness and imagination. The Dialogue Seminar’s Research Milieu brings up new questions about the possibilities of pursuing scientific or methodological reflection by means of analogical thinking and about the status of classical humanistic readings within the post graduate education.

Är det möjligt att i ett akademiskt seminarium återskapa eller rentav utveckla något av den reflekterande dia­log som pågår mellan en mästare och hans lärlingar? När tänker vi analogiskt och kan vi använda oss av analogiskt tänkande i samband med utövande av vetenskapen? Vilken plats har humanistisk läsning i allt detta? Dialogseminariemetoden utvecklades ursprungligen för att stödja erfarenhetsutbyte bland ingenjörer men kom därefter att användas i många andra sammanhang. Den uttrycker en genomtänkt hållning i fråga om vad som binder ihop yrkeskunnande, litteratur, ­filosofi och idéhistoria med konst och vetenskap.

Dialogseminariets forskningsmiljö beskriver metodens ­idéhistoriska rötter samt hur den använts inom forskarprogrammet KTH Advanced Programme in Reflective Practice för att driva vetenskaplig och filosofisk reflektion.