Evolving discourses on design thinking: how design cognition inspires meta-disciplinary creative collaboration

Originating within research on design cognition, the term ‘design thinking’ has been growing in popularity over the past three decades, and has become a matter in a variety of discourses, assuming diverse and not necessarily congruent notions. In this article we suggest how to differentiate those discourses on design thinking and discuss its evolution into a meta-disciplinary concept. In recent times, the term ‘design thinking’ has been invoked in various areas, thereby assuming diverse and not necessarily congruent notions. Originally used as an open concept to describe a designer’s cognitive strategies of problem solving