when you feel the need to ask more structured questions that you have the
need to understand what the questions might reveal.
david is quite right. all i wish to add is that the need to ask questions
does not need to be taken literally. one can have these questions and act
to bring forth a satisfactory answer
klaus
-----Original Message-----
From: PhD-Design - This list is for discussion of PhD studies and
related research in Design [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf
Of Jeoung-Ah Kim
Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2005 8:47 AM
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Subject: Re: OF and FOR / tribal-centric
You said that “ When we understand something we are
effectively saying, there is no more to ask, no more
to question, all is revealed. “.
I do not agree. You can ask more structured and
formulated questions when you understand something.
Kim Jeoung-Ah
HDK, Göteborg University
Box 131, 405 30, Göteborg
Sweden
--- David Sless <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> GK wrote:
>
> > I assume that it is understood by most on this
> list that there already
> > is an entire industry focused on making
> complexities understandable to
> > humans. To state it another way: Designers are
> already involved in the
> > understanding business.
>
> Back in 1986 in the preface to 'In search of
> semiotics' I wrote:
>
> > [A]llow me to caution you about the nature of
> understanding.
> > Understanding is achieved when, for a moment,
> there are no more
> > questions to ask. Understanding is the dead spot
> in our struggle for
> > meaning; it is the momentary pause, the stillness
> before
> > incomprehension continues; it is the brief relief
> from doubt that is
> > the norm. Thus understanding is a temporary state
> of closure. When we
> > understand something we are effectively saying
> there is no more to
> > ask, no more to question, all is revealed. But of
> course ‘all ’ is
> > never revealed and the sensation of certainty
> always passes.
>
> But, like Keith, perhaps we should throw caution to
> the wind!
> Perhaps we need to write a new 'guide to the
> perplexed', o yea of
> little faith.
>
> David
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