Dear Doris,
I am sure, you will receive many sophisticated answers to your question.....
Going back to Christopher Alexander (1964) the question of design is
between form and context.
Since ten years there is a dicussion about "design as a discipline".
Nigel Cross said in his review
of Klaus Krippendorffs "the semantic turn" (Boca Raton/Londonm/New York
2006):
/"I would interpret this as in line with a now fairly widely accepted
view of design as a discipline"
/(Design Studies, No.1, January 2007, Vol.. 28).
You are right: "product semantics" and "product language" are the
disciplinary kernels of industrial design.
And then there are many other disciplines and theories which can
contribute to industrial design also,
which is something else then design in general, Victor Papanek once
said: "everything is design".
Yours
Bernhard____
> Dear all,
>
> I'm writing a text and preparing a course in Design Theory and would be glad
> to hear opinions, comments and ideas of the members of this list.
>
> I think that design never had a theoretical corpus of its own, although it
> made use of some theories borrowed from other fields, like the gestalt from
> psychology. I also recognize a great value over the Product Language Theory.
> Besides this, in the last decades, with the advent of the post-modern and
> the concept of the end of the great narratives, even those theories were
> questioned. My question is, which theories would you think are still valid
> in design teaching nowadays?
>
> Thank you and best wishes,
>
>
> Doris Kosminsky
> Professor - Escola de Belas Artes
> Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro - UFRJ
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