Hi Bruce,
By far the biggest amount of design done in the world is done in the fields
of engineering design.
How would your approach to defining design apply to engineering design?
Best regards,
Terry
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Subject: A simple definition of 'Design' ~ De-constructing the Sign?
Gunnar,
Is it helpful in seeking a simple definition of design to consider design as
the 'de' construction of the 'sign'?
This may build upon everyone's ability to change the sign, to "shift... the
relationship between the signifier and the signified".
(Ferdinand de Saussure (1966) Course in General Linguistics, trans W.
Baskin. New York: McGraw-Hill. page 74).
As an example of design, Jacques Lacan inverts and introduces a Heraclitean
'flux' to the relationship.
(Jacques Lacan. Le Seminaire. livre III. Les Psychoses 1955-1956 Editions du
Seuil. Paris VI. pp 296-297).
It may depend upon the meaning of a 'simple' definition!
Bruce
Student
University of Edinburgh
Scotland
Quoting "Swanson, Gunnar" <[log in to unmask]>:
> I find it particularly troublesome when any group tries to define its
> field as an honorific. Is design always innovative? If we [design]
> something that is not innovative, have we done something that is not
> design? How about thoughtful, constructive, strategic. . .
>
> It would be interesting to try it from the other side: What is it that
> people think of as design that is NOT design?
>
> Gunnar
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