although your (chris') question is addressed to rosan, i like to give you my
answer:
design always needs to question and challenge what others take for granted,
whether this is western or eastern discourse, or whether it concerns
knowledge couched in scientific or everyday terms.
i wouldn't consider the need of challenging existing conception in terms of
balance, but on second thought, proceeding without that challenge ends up
extremist, which could be considered a kind of imbalance.
my concern with the rationalist preconception of design as problem solving
(A) is that it confines design to given (assigned or adopted) problems and
does not go outside that box. oftentimes this is okay. but i would not
want to see its commonness generalized and dominating the conception of
design
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From: PhD-Design - This list is for discussion of PhD studies and
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Of Christopher Kueh
Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2006 7:39 AM
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Subject: Re: A Spanner in the works
HI Rosan,
You said: 'the world is in need of a counter-discourse to balance, not
replace, the
dominating western discourse'.
Can you explain more on 'counter-discourse' and 'western discourse'? If to
balance western-discourse, what of it that we are to balance? Is there also
such thing as 'estern discourse'?
Sorry if these were already being explained in the earlier posts. Have not
been reading in details on the recent posts as I'm completing my own PhD
thesis :)
Thanks!
-Chris
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