Dear Harold
i thought it was very brave of you to bring up 'design knowledge'. i have
this feeling that this phrase 'design knowledge' is not a popular pick-up
line any more. anyway,
as you must know, in design research, we have at least 40 years or if you
like starting from the bauhaus, 80 years of history of trying to
articulate design by differentiating it from science (or arts). i have
spent a little time thinking about this. and i have a question for you if
that is ok:
what does talking of design as an architectonic process and science as a
tectonic process offer that other previous articulations do not?
with full respect,
rosan
Harold Nelson wrote:
> Dear Oliver
>
> The definitions I use are:
>
> Architectonic is a process evoking or responding to an emergent
> ordering system (for example a design, a composition, a parti etc.).
>
> Tectonic is a process of accretion of individual elements associated by
> protocols of relationships resulting in functional assemblies (for
> example the world wide web).
>
> Harold
Dear list
Listening in on the reports from Ph.D students, in conjunction with the
news that Washington State University's Doctor of Design program is now
accepting students and that UC Irvine's proposed new design program has
been changed to a proposal for a more modest interdisciplinary
experiment, has resurfaced a question for me concerning the nature of
design knowledge and other forms of knowledge (scientific, ethical
etc.). For example the generation of scientific knowledge (e.g. design
science) seems to be primarily the product of a tectonic process while
design knowledge is a product of an architectonic process (designing of
course requires the integration of both types of knowledge ( in
addition to others)). The question for me is a second order inquiry
into how one produces and/or integrates these two types of knowledge
within formal academic design programs if such programs are not
designed with that intention in mind in the first place. This also
relates to the question of the difference between design scholarship
and other forms of scholarship if any.
Harold
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