Terry, you wrote, in response to Dori Tunstall's query about design
researchers' preferred "artifact of evidence," that:
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> ...in industrial design, it is typically the representation of the
> designed object (a 'blueprint'?) that is asssessed rather than the cup or
> car as finally manufactured.
> For most of the fields I can think of, it is the representation that is
> assessed (or the ability to make part of that represenation) not the
> final
> manufactured version of the designed outcome.
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Do you mean to say that design researchers assess things that way? Because
it seems to me that most automotive critics write about cars they have test
driven, that electronics/computing reviewers write only about hardware and
software they have put through the paces themselves, and that Consumer
Reports publishes reviews only of actual products available on shelves. I am
not sure who you have in mind when you suggest that people "typically"
assess the representation rather than the object. Care to clarify?
thanks,
Carma
Carma R. Gorman, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, History of Art and Design
School of Art and Design
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