Dear Keith,
Reacting to my recent request for clarification to Klaus re.
theorizing on the design activity, you wrote:
> Oh to escape theorizing ? - as if this were something to desire.
>
> The tolerance for abstraction varies as the lust for the concrete
varies. We each establish an economy that allows us to fluctuate our
attentions. Creativity can be looked at in terms of these economies -
some are more productive of abstract objects - some of concrete
objects.
>
> The general discourse of design tends to gravitate to the concrete
end of this economy.
>
> This graviation is a social action - it has nothing to do with the
economy of creativity.
>
True, I agree! No one would desire skipping theory. Especially these
days the world is in a major transitional turmoil, it needs direction.
The urgent challenge now facing us, designers as a social group
worldwide, is to reflect on whether or not we can any longer afford
the economy of theorizing on what we are doing and how we are doing
it, and on all the potential outcomes. And this preferably before,
than after...!
Another abstraction from Montréal
François-X.
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