Hi Ranulph,
I'm aware that some designers I know use design techniques that reuse in
their personal design practice the skills they developed in the realm of
conversation with others. As you say, these skills enable people who wish to
design that way to have a 'conversation with the self' with short -term
memory being externalized into sketches.
I don't design that way nor do many others I suspect.
By observation, when designing most of us apply and reuse skills developed
in other realms.
Conversation isn't exclusive in this regard, although it may be common in
those designers who use words a lot?
Thoughts?
Best,
Terry
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Subject: Re: design as discourse
I have argued, following the cybernetician Gordon Pask, that at the
heart of the act of designing is an action that may be thought of as
a conversation with the self via paper and pencil. This is elaborated
in the recent volume I edited of Kybernetes on Cybernetics and Design
(vol 36, nos 9 and 10, 2007). Copies of this volume have been sent to
several people on the list.
See Glanville, R (2007), Try again. Fail again. Fail better: the
cybernetics in design and the
design in cybernetics, Kybernetes vol 36 not 9 and 10.
Of course, this sort of conversation (clearly some variety of
discourse, although perhaps in a manner that adds to those being used
in the current discussion) is non-verbal.
Ranulph
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