Hi Terry, Klaus, Pradeep, and Francois
I think we’re talking about what has been referred to as “a displacement of the locus of innovation from a hierarchical model to a distributed environment including customers, (lead) users, intermediaries and other external stakeholders” (Yakhlef, 2005, 227). I understand this as part of a reworking of the relations between people and their labour that characterises and defines the new economy (Adkins, 2005). So yes, a lawyer’s primary function is similar to that of a designer, and yes the social contract between the designer and the society of all users is hugely important. My interest, however, is in the way properties such as creativity, which under the conditions of the social contract were assumed to reside in the person, are now being understood to be able to be organized externally. Whereas it used to be that design was the tradeable commodity, in the ‘creative economy discourse’, design disappears and it is creativity that becomes the commodity.
Yes, this topic needs research, and I would love to have time to do more, but right now I have to go and deliver a first year Dress and Society lecture!
Adkins, L. (2005). The New Economy, Property and Personhood. Theory, Culture & Society, 22(1), 111–130.
Yakhlef, A. (2005). Immobility of tacit knowledge and the displacement of the locus of innovation. European Journal of Innovation Management, 8(2), 227-239.
Amanda Bill
College of Creative Arts
Massey University
Wellington
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Hello Terry, Amanda, Klaus, Pradeep, and everyone else!
While talking about "contract" and "design", yes, we do usually consider
the immediate market agreement between the designer and the one who
commissioned him/her for a monetary fee.
I think, however, that we should also extend the concept to the tacit
social agreement between the designer and the society of all users, whom
the output design is intended for. This evident "contrat social" is
becoming more and more obvious these days (co-design, experience design,
user oriented design, etc.) than it used to be previously. Therefore,
Terry's proposal seems to me even more appropriate and timely, and it
begs for further research.
Thanks, Terry, for the insight!
Francois
Montreal
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