On Aug 1, 2005, at 5:18 PM, Filippo Salustri wrote:
> These days, however, design is becoming a discipline unto itself.
> Some of us believe it already is this and has been this for a long
> time - and that instead it is only now that we're starting to
> recognise the fact. Others still have a hard time seeing design as not
> much more than a thing one does in the course of practicing one's
> discipline; i.e. not a discipline itself.
[snip]
> Design is not just another column. It is a horizontal slice through
> all the columns. As such it shares features with all other
> disciplines and yet has features that are distinctly its own.
I'm trying to get a handle on this discipline/not discipline thing. Can
anyone offer an analogous (meta?) discipline (academic or otherwise)
that is a "horizontal slice" of this nature. What other disciplines
slice through all columns of some groups of fields?
Gunnar
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