Dear All
"invention" means "to come upon" - so, in this sense there are always bits of stuff out there waiting to be "come upon", taken up, fiddled with and used as part of design. Just where in the "coming upon" process some kind of integration is COME UPON that leads to what we might call a design is the part that should be of interest to design. That is, it is a transition between a primary finding of things available and the disclosure of a new thing of/from/with the already available that indicates the mind of design.
cheers
keith
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