I would like to respond to Amanda's account of his discourse analysis
exercise for textile design students. This is exactly what is needed
for designers of new technologies - software, GPS designers, and the
like. These folks are creating devices that are radically changing
the way we experience the world and there appears to be little
reflection on how this is happening. Perhaps others who teach these
tech students could adopt similar approaches that induce more
reflection on the phenomelogical effects of the products they hope to
design.
Victor Margolin
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Victor Margolin
Professor Emeritus of Design History
Department of Art History
University of Illinois at Chicago
935 W. Harrison St.
Chicago, IL 60607-7039
Tel. 1-312-583-0608
Fax 1-312-413-2460
website: www.uic.edu/~victor
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