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* [[Behaviorism]] interpreted design methods as a way to describe human behavior. It's clinical approach tended to abstract design methods within the abstraction of behaviorism – analogus to [[taxonomic]] activities.

* [[Reductivism]] interpreted design methods from a scientific approach, breaking design methods down into small constituent parts. It's scientific approach tended to abstract design methods within the abstraction of science – analogus to [[epistemological]] activities.

* [[Phenomenology]] interpreted design methods from aan experiential approach, describing design methods as human experience. It's approach tended to abstract design methods within the world of [[perception]]

All three camps built upon design methods in their own way in the late 1960's and 1970's. The Environmental Design and Research Association [http://www.edra.org/ EDRA] is one of the best known entities that continues to try to integrate designers and social science professionals for better built environments. There are many questions how effective EDRA has been since its founding by Henry Sanoff in 1969 and its ability to affect both policy and methods of collaborative design. Both John Christopher Jones and Christopher Alexander interacted with EDRA and other camps in an organic dialogue. However, both seemed to at a certain point reject these camps and their interpretation and application of design methods. Jones and Christopher also questioned their original thesis about design methods.