Not really what you are looking for, but I would
recommend the very smart, very funny and very
accurate (as recent threads continue to evidence)
keynote address at Jonas' EAD06 in Bremen by
the self-professed Luhmanniac Maren Lehmann,
"Rats in the Maze," available as part of the down-
loadable conference proceedings:
http://ead06.hfk-bremen.de/conference/ead06_cdrom.zip
To fully understand the paper, you really need
the single image that Maren used to accompany
her talk, that of largest ever 'rat-king':
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Ratking.jpg
Cameron
Jurgen Faust wrote:
>Hi All,
>
>
>I am dealing currently with an idea which I have to put out there, since I
>don't find the right literature either to expand or revise.
>
>Looking at the discourse formation and the practices (Foucault), the
>justification as well as the boundaries, in our case, the design discourse
>(Krippendorff) could also be understood as a self organizing system (Fuchs).
>
>As I do understand viable systems from a self organizing perspective, that
>through the intrusion, through the crossing of outside discourses the
>boundary of viable systems are permanently changing, therefore, couldn’t we
>change and say:
>
>the design discourse understands itself as an inclusive discourse formation,
>which includes not only the community which calls themselves designers,
>therefore the intrusion through engineering and marketing as well as from
>sociologists and others is nothing else then signs of a transdisciplinary
>practice of discourse which has to be established? So we could also be
>focused on guidelines how to research products from a design perspective etc.
>
>... I started to look for transdisciplinary discourse papers to explore on
>this idea but I didn’t find to much, is somebody having an idea?
>
>
>Thanks,
>
>
>
>
>Jurgen Faust
>
>Prof. Dipl. Ing.
>Chief Academic Officer
>Istituto Europeo di Design
>Presidenza Gruppo IED, Milano
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