Terry,
Maybe it's the end of the school year crushing what little power of
thought I had left but I'm confused. The link you provided didn't work
but what I found on the web leads me to believe that you are talking
about someone's plans to make real Mussolini's claim of on-time
trains. Is that what it's about?
Is your implication that graphic designers should be scheduling trains
rather than just communicating the schedule?
Can you explain something about what these algorithms are or do? How,
then, would they apply to graphic design and fashion design?
If this is obvious to everyone else, sorry for my slow uptake of this.
Gunnar
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On May 3, 2010, at 9:01 PM, Terence Love wrote:
> Can Graphic Design and other design disciplines learn from railway
> timetabling?
>
> A new design approach from the EU Arrivals group has developed better
> algorithms for managing railways so trains arrive on time more,
> railways use
> their resources more efficiently, and more trains and passengers can
> be used
> on the same rail track and stations - whilst maintaining the same
> safety
> standards. The approach is now implemented across Europe.
>
> The new design approach has two integrated strands:
>
> 1. Robust planning so all aspects of the rail services are as
> efficient as possible while minimising effects of disruptions.
>
> 2. Online planning for efficiently responding to disruptions
> in real
> time
>
> These two strands of design problem (robust design and planning for
> disruptions) are found in many other areas of design. They appear
> in any
> situation with noise as shown by say Weaver's representation of
> Shannon's
> communication model
>
> For example, Graphic Design requires that communication must occur
> robustly
> across a complicated array of viewers AND meanings and communication
> can be
> disrupted by other events. For example, news, or medicine bottle
> labels.
>
> Similar algorithms would be expected to apply to Graphic Design,
> Fashion
> Design, Architecture and the railways and to many other areas of
> design. At
> present, these issues are handled (or not) by designers. Using
> these forms
> of algorithms (and similar approaches) would require a change in
> design
> education, design research and design practices in many conventional
> design
> fields if they are not to be left behind.
>
> (Source: ACM TechNews 3May10 and Cordis Europa
>
> http://cordis.europa.eu/ictresults/index.cfm?section=news
> <http://cordis.europa.eu/ictresults/index.cfm?section=news&tpl=article&Brows
> ingType=Features&ID=91338>
> &tpl=article&BrowsingType=Features&ID=91338 )
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