Building on the post below, it's worth understanding the practical benefits of this negotiated appreciation of the nature of meaning and knowledge and why this is especially pertinent to a design-led approach.
Anyone with a passing understanding of design will be familiar with the need todeal with emergent, unfocussed and fundamentally unsolvable problems on a day to day basis (see Wicket thinking).
This comfortableness of good designers with not being in control of processes, use, reaction to, or reading of the design of knowledge exchange activities where the actual knowledge transfer is very much uncertain a pretty comfortable thing to get to grips with.
This is not an academic analysis (although there is a paper I have written about this subject here), it's the result of the interaction of philosophy with working with over 50 companies in the past 12 months in a series of knowledge exchange events and activities.
The experience from there is that the skill is ... digital marketing agencies, to high-tech SMEs to new projects with the nuclear decommissioning industry that the skill is engendering a context and approach that facilitates the flow of information between parties. This can be hard information or softer things like perspectives/opinions.
This is much more powerful than trying to 'imprint' knowledge on people, also because you are 'flowing' with participants and releasing their potential, the process is more enjoyable for everyone.
