don't forget that the noun discipline come from the verb to discipline
a discipline is the commitment of a group of people to discipline each other
for deviations from commonly accepted practices.
when such a group works long enough, members my internalize excepted acts of
discipline, no longer need to discipline each other that much by
disciplining themselves in view of the commonly accepted practices. another
word for that state of exerting self-discipline in institutionalization (of
commonly accepter practices). from the literature we know that institutions
are habitual practices that subscribers seek to preserve and deviations from
which are counteracted, and deviators are held accountable for their
deviations, punished or disciplined.
in my opinion, unless one conceives design as a mere service to an industry,
design needs to remain undisciplined - except for being accountable to its
stakeholders, users, etc.
klaus
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Subject: Re: Disciplines, Fuss, etc.
We might distinguish between Discipline with a capital "D" and discipline
with a little "d" in order to reveal the practical aspects of these issues.
Big "D" Disciplines may take to themselves what they see as key little "d"
disciplines - meaning key skills-as-knowledge that a practicioner in that
Discipline may be expected to have.
These key kills-as-knowledge will vary over time and they will vary in terms
of their capacity to sustain the Discipline. That is, Disciplines usually
drift away from a pragmatic set of skills-as-knowledge towards a set of
requirements as requirements of registration, membership etc.
A similar thing applies to research in terms of rigour and a recognised
field of academic work.
cheers from football mad Australia
keith
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