I'd like to add another point to Trond's list
I also found the seeds for another relevant research area (or common ground, maybe?) The area proposed by Peter Butenschon -the first Keynote speaker- refers to the need to find design applications targeted to solve social and environmental problems. It is relevant that such an ethical proposal comes from ICSID because the challenge it implies is relevant as it relates to aspects and needs that are not usually covered by the rules of the market, as Victor Margolin was emphasizing. In some of the breakfast and lunch discussion I had with Victor and others I come to the conviction that research areas close to design management, or strategic design, for instance, may provide methodology and logical tools that, translated from the market-based logic to new grounds, may provide some of the seeds for new developments.
I haven't had time, after the conference, to articulate this argument, but I would be happy to discuss this with those who may be interested.
Ass Prof Nicola Morelli
Institute of Architecture and Design
Aalborg University, Denmark
Web: http://www.aod.auc.dk/staff/nmor
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From: Trond Are Oritsland [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 14 September 2002 17:13
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Subject: Building the Field? on which ground?
First - thanks to the organisers for an excelent conference, the chairs were small and hard for a big norwegian frame, but the tea flow compensated.
I was also of the impression that "common ground" was thematic, but as John Shackleton pointed out people mostly talk about what they want anyway. In this perspective one could say that the title encouraged a broad palette of design research from many diciplines, which was just what I had hoped to hear. It served as a kind of reality check for me and my dept.. One can only attend about a third of the presentations , which means some filtering takes place, but from my perspective, the following points seemed important Common Ground:
- A philosophical interest in phenomenology and "the embodied mind" .
- Shared interest in design teaching in terms of understanding the process of design.
- A movement from the object, to interaction as the basis of designs "artifact"
I am interested to hear other opinions from people who participated (and heard other
streams)
Trond Are Øritsland
Dept. og Product Design,
Norwegian University of Science and Technology,
Trondheim
Ass Prof Nicola Morelli
Institute of Architecture and Design
Aalborg University, Denmark
Web: http://www.aod.auc.dk/staff/nmor
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