期刊名称：She Ji: The Journal of Design, Economics, and Innovation
印刷版ISSN：2405-8726
出版年度：2021
卷号：7
期号：1
页码：104-143
DOI：10.1016/j.sheji.2020.12.002
语种：English
出版社：Elsevier
摘要：AbstractMilitary contexts are rapidly changing and are facing unprecedented levels of uncertainty and complexity. The conception and formalization of ‘Military Design Thinking’ has arisen as a potential tool to encounter and address these complex challenges and support innovation at the operational level of war. However, the extant literature lacks extensive investigation into conceptualizations of military design thinking, particularly from the perspective of the design research community. As such, this article reports on a critical literature review in which we derive nine key attributes from the data and present two emergent, novel conceptualizations of the term military design thinking: a pragmatic approach that largely seeks to modify existing military operational art in a minimal manner, and a more reflexive practice that seeks to break free from traditional military modes of thinking and develop innovative approaches to the problems of the contemporary operating environment. This article seeks to clarify military design thinking and contextualize its place in the wider design field by highlighting the pressing need for greater depth and diversity in design research underpinning future conceptualizations of military design thinking.Highlights•This paper provides the first extensive, critical literature review on Military Design Thinking.•We identify nine (9) key characteristics as specifically pertaining to military design thinking.•We derive two emergent conceptualizations of military design thinking from the data that document the term as either pragmatic or reflexive.•The content highlights a pressing need for greater depth and diversity in design research underpinning future conceptualizations of military design thinking.
