well, yes, frameworks are conceptual.
i can't imagine a framework that is not.
but it is one thing to have something in mind or thinking that one has, and
quite a different thing to teach something, work with someone within a
framework, or wanting to know how productive it is (was). if you have no
criteria to talk about and by which to evaluate a framework, i wonder what
it is.
sorely, a typographical grid is a framework and one can test whether it
accommodates what one wished to organize in its terms, but this is probably
not what others meant to replace theory with
kk
-----Original Message-----
From: Tiiu Poldma [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2005 8:28 PM
To: Klaus Krippendorff; [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Design & Theory
Hi Klaus.
What about a conceptual framework? Something 'in the making', open to
scrutiny and the possibility of encouraging exploration?
This might be something to be shared.....
Tiiu Poldma
University of Montreal
----- Original Message -----
From: "Klaus Krippendorff" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2005 1:50 PM
Subject: Re: Design & Theory
good suggestion.
but we should not jump into using a metaphor without being clear of its
entailments and clarifying how we can test its practicality or validity.
obviously there are good frameworks and bad frameworks, frameworks that
unduly constrain and frameworks that encourage exploration. how do we share
a framework?
klaus
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