Dear Rosan
I am not sure why one would assume that the 'philosophy of design'
tends to terms of true or false. Limiting either 'philosophy' or
'design' to these outcomes greatly diminishes both I believe.
Harold
On Nov 29, 2005, at 8:00 AM, Rosan Chow wrote:
> Dear Terry
>
> my phrase is actually 'a design of design', implying that there can
> be many proposals (thanks Klaus
> for this useful word/concept) suitable for different contexts.
>
> the second 'design' in my phrase refers to design as a concept
>
> ....how we conceptualize design... as a discipline, as a field of
> 640 subfields, as a profession, as
> applied art, as basic human internal activity, as intention, as
> specification, as proposal, as
> culture, as research, as disclosure, as creativity, as innovation,
> as a science of the artificial,
> as rhetoric, as philosophy, as creative democracy....
>
> the idea of 'a design of design' allows me to think of each
> proposal not in terms of true or false
> (as the idea of 'a philosophy of design' tends to do),
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