Dear Terry
I think this is an excellent set of questions - most of which are either
front-on and boring or else at a tangent and most interesting (excuse
the extending).
Serioulsy, the ecology of designing, to pinch Gibson's concept, is
something we might talk about after we finish off the boring bit. That
is, we can use assessment methods to see whether a student is good or
bad at this and that - this might predict their longer-term skills.
Beyond knowing whether they are good at novels or poems or songs or
short stories or dramas or rock video clips, we need to allow for the
negative - what is NOT in their work that indicates the larger capacity
to engage in an ecology of design.
That is, the benefit alluded to in the case of sculpture is that
sculpture allows for the implication of the back in the front, the up in
the down etc. Sculpture is like Gibson's concept of perception - we
always understand that there is a continuous world in front of us,
beside us, and hey, yes, behind. We apprehend the obverse as an
implication of perception. The capacity for inscribing this apprehension
in an object is a feature of sculptors.
Very few designed objects evidence such awareness. So, in that sense,
the sculpture test might isolate the few but then what would we do with
these few? Make them design lady-shavers.
keith russell
OZ Newcastle
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Terry Love wrote:
Hello,
Today came across this quote in Newscan:
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"I say that the art of sculpture is eight times as great as any other
art based on drawing, because a statue has eight views and they must all
be
equally good." (Benvenuto Cellini)
I'm interested in people's thoughts about how this applies to design
fields when assessing relative merits of different designs in e.g.
portfolios, design awards, student presentations etc. Its obvious that
relative complexity and 'multi-sidedness' be taken into account in some
way. Should 3D designs be counted 8 times the value of 2D designs? How
about the relative value of 4D designs compared to designs that are
fixed in time??
Best wishes,
Terry
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