Hi Filippo,
Thanks for your correction
You wrote: "Engineering design is rooted soundly in
pictures (CAD models and various other renderings and visualizations)."
In fact it comes just to give credit to what I think. That any "simple
definition of design" should integrate anticipation through visualization.
That's why you distinguish between analytical engineering as using calculi
and engineering design as using CAD. Since I can imagine that Engineering
design exists at least since the middle 20th century I imagine that instead
of CAD engineering design used technical drawings.
I'm concern about a definition of design that do not include visualization
because design would become useless as a word, meaning anything.
Amanda Bill pointed out few days ago that old Design Schools and Departments
are changing their names to "Creative Arts”,” Creative Industries".
If Simon's definition is valuable there is no sense in calling anything a
Design School.
In fact it would be very interesting to test some definitions putting the
word school after
the definition, starting with Simon’s:
“[devise] courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into
preferred ones School”
The initial Daniel Chambers’:
'Seeking differentiation through Insight School'
Bruce Currey’s:
“'de' construction of the 'sign' School”
Juris Milestone’s borrowed from Shore and Wright's book, Anthropology of
Policy:
“Mobilizing Metaphor School”
Anthony Cahalan’s:
“Research, analysis and creation of innovative products and services which
shape the human experience School”
Richard Buchanan’s;
“The conceiving, planning, and realising products that serve human beings in
the accomplishment of any individual or collective purpose School”
Karen Fu’s:
“Thoughtful living School”
My humble contribution:
“The necessary and sufficient depiction of feasible things to come School”
Gunnar Swanson’s:
“What people do not think of as design that is NOT design School”
Ian Rooney’s:
'Adaptation of representation School'
I’m forgetting many others sorry, but try this with as much definitions you
want,
Cheers. J
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