Can it be my advanced age, or am I an unrehabilitatable traditionalist?
I would not have thought as much.
'Design Thinking' has not outlived its usefulness, and neither has
design thinking been outsourced to machines, since the statement
"the idea of limiting the idea of design activity to 'design is a
thought process' is looking a bit simplistic" is simply not true.
The problem of the Chinese Room has not been solved yet, and before that
time, design as a human thought process will remain the only criterion
we can safely follow.
Full artificial intelligence will one day be possible, but until then
design as a human activity must be pinned to the conceptual map of human
desires and needs, not to the territory of so-called 'reality'.
Johann
Johann van der Merwe
HOD: Research, History & Theory of Design
Faculty of Informatics and Design
Cape Peninsula University of Technology
South Africa
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