On Tue, 6 Feb 2001 [log in to unmask] wrote:
> necessary to confront the client. It is necessary to interact. Marx was a
> designer not a teacher.
>
> "The philosophers have only interpreted the world in different ways; the
> point is to change it. " (Marx, Thesis on Feuerbach, 1845)
>
Certainly an interesting point, it may be also valid to some extent
What I got from Marx's writing when I read some of his work in the late
1980s as an ID student was a kind of comprehensive way or methodology (a
mix of dialectic and materialism!) to try to understand and analyse social
phenomena, including design activity within a broader context.
As Ken mentioned, common with many designers, for me too, it provided an
early foundation of social theories, while my design school failed to
give any social perspective about design.
alpay er
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Dr. H. Alpay Er, Assoc. Prof.
Istanbul Technical University
Dept. of Industrial Product Design
Taskisla, Istanbul 80191 TR
Phone : +90 212 2931310 ext. 2201
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