Any living system requires diversity to maintain health and
vitality...mono-systems are contained unities that have difficulty
surviving and also often generate contamination and disease for other
systems...we only have to look at the origins of bird flu to know this
is so.
The search for a general truth is akin to the development of a
mono-system & in my view has no place in design.
What design may do as well as change elements in the world is generate a
means for mental proprioception....demonstrate to those within the field
of its agency the position or place that our minds occupy... how our
thinking is positioned in relation to others, objects and events. This
leads to an ability to identify (mental) positions in relation to some
event or demonstrated understanding...my belief is that this is design
research...methodologies that afford an understanding of how our
thinking is in relation to others in the world.
normNorm
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Sent: Thursday, 23 February 2006 1:29 AM
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Subject: Re: A Spanner in the works
Dear Ranjan
following my reply to Christopher, I would like to add that there are
resources in ancient chinese philosophy that are relevant, and make
sense to
me, see
"Dewey, Confucius and the hope for Democracy in China", David Hall and
Roger
Ames 1999. Open Court, Chicago and Lasalle, Illinios.
"John Dewey, Confucius and Global Philosophy", Joseph Grange. 2004.
State
University of New York Press, Albany.
I believe that Tony Fry has suggested the same before in his book" A new
philosophy of design: An introduction to defuturing".
Rosan
M P Ranjan wrote:
> I am not too sure that it is a West and East issue any more. Both
China
> and India have changed so much in recent times that their ancient
> histories (or wisdom) do not seem to inform current practices any
more.
> While on the other hand we have had Western thinkers sharing design
> wisdom that rings true and I am sure will find application in the East
> as well as in the West.
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