1) Description of the field, problem, theme, challenge, purpose. Relevance. Description of the object. Use of the Aristotelian categories. |
2) Instrumental elements. Techniques mastered, existing knowledge, paradigms, practices, examples. Adaptation of the method to the case. |
3) Intuited understandings. Depending on the need use of different sources of experience: -Sensory experience, somatic eye, mono-logical, sensitive, empiricism -Mental experience, mind’s eye, dialogical, intelligible, rationalism -Spiritual experience, eye of the spirit, trans-logical, transcendent, mysticism Aristotelian doctrine of signatures: analogies, emulation, etc. |
4) Prototype creation. First resultant version from the particular tekhne. |
5) Testing the prototype. Evaluation and internal criticism. Introduction of prototypical improvements. |
6) Creation of the artifact. Consciousness of its characteristics, adaptation to the purpose, advantages, etc. |
7) Presentation before a community. External evaluation by experts, external criticism. Incorporation of improvements in the artifact. |
8) Introduction of the artifact in society. Production process, if it’s the case. Acceptance by the stakeholders. |
9) Influences in the live of people and communities. Personal, cultural, social changes, changes in knowledge, etc. |
10) Balance in the creation of common good, wellbeing, utility or knowledge. |