Hi Klaus & All
I have been absent from the list for many months completing my PhD thesis
on a fellowship which allowed me to be free from the teaching at Uni grind
and just design a cross cultural explanative text which addresses
Indigenous Visual Philosophy... the visual design language which, through
many individuated approaches, speaks of/to the deeper understandings of
Indigenous People in Australia...i started reading through the most recent
postings today...and saw a lot of interesting debates and discourse
concerning the conceptions of this thing design and how we may talk about
it...and the definitions and terms which might best apply in this context.
In this field of different views and contested standpoints it might be
appropriate to present the idea that design speaks in a constant
individuated and diverse dialogue from which the whole movement of
knowledge of a time, context, culture or individual can be understood. The
products and intentions of designers speak and from this speech
meta-understandings emerge...design may be seen in this light as external
or externalised cognitions of individuals or whole societies...the problem
being that the normative academic language within which these visual
conceptions are addressed and defined is not in accord with the language
the artefact and often the maker and sometimes the theorist speaks.
Dialogue may therefore be a more appropriate descriptive realm of
engagement within a design context...indeed visual dialogue may be
discerned as occuring in many relations between design products and their
origins through contemporary products in competition...Attached below is a
paper by David Bohm and others which presents one clear version of this
thing called Dialogue.
All the best to everyone and it is great to read your good words again
Norm
http://www.muc.de/~heuvel/dialogue/dialogue_proposal.html
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Norman Sheehan
Lecturer
Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Studies Unit
University of Queensland
Brisbane Old 4072 Australia
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