Jeremy,
Im afraid you missed the point and/or didn't choose to read the paper
I posted. It is not that philosophical distinctions have no bearing on
design or design thinking, it is that they do not speak
comprehensively or operationally to the issues involved. I suspect
that there is a little cognitive dissonance/defensiveness in your
opinion driven response. It would be helpful if you would elaborate on
what you think the effect of semiotics and structuralism has been on
the work of a design theorist of your choosing. We might get somewhere
then.
Chuck
On Feb 18, 2011, at 1:18 PM, jeremy hunsinger wrote:
> I'm sorry I've not been paying much attention the last few days, but
> I do find it hard to believe that anyone would hold the belief that
> continental philosophy is far from design thinking at all.... I went
> back and looked at Terry's critique and it is primarily a
> misidentification of phenomenology's subjectivity as non-empirical,
> and untested... There are whole journals on phenomenological
> psychology that have tested various aspects. It seems to be a
> broad, and quite questionable overgeneralization... It is sort of
> like someone saying 'design will never be scientific, it will always
> be an art', to which almost everyone would say... some is
> scientific, some is artistic. Some will be empirically validated
> and some will not. It really depends much less on ideological
> statements, which is where I put the statement by Terry, then on the
> actual facts of the matter. I personally doubt there would even
> be field of 'design' like it is today without various continental
> thinkers and philosophers. I think you would probably only have
> some sort of proto-bauhaus engineering and then a bunch of people in
> various craft movements. Think of it... where would design be
> without continental structuralism? continental semiotics and the
> theory of signs (granted there have been american's in it too)? I
> don't think there would be much to design theorizing without
> semiotics and structuralism, even if it goes unacknowledged.
> On Feb 18, 2011, at 1:01 PM, Charles Burnette wrote:
>
>> Dear Colleagues,
>>
>> As Terry remarked earlier, continental philosophy has a long way to
>> go before it can provide a basis for theorizing about design.
>
> Jeremy Hunsinger
> Center for Digital Discourse and Culture
> Political Science
> Virginia Tech
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