Dear David and colleagues
The "idea of a Transformer", as developed by Michael Macdonald-Ross
and Robert Waller (following the Neurath), echoes quite well the idea of a
'Concepteur' that some of us in the Francophone milieu have been promoting
since the last 3-4 decades. We had been searching for a replacement to
Jacques Viénot's concept and term of 'Esthétique industrielle' (that Don
still refers to in his 'provocative' rant), and also a replacement to the
'fourre-tout' Anglo-saxon term 'design' that generalists, experts and
laypersons all use indistinctly.
Francophone cartesians are very uncomfortable with the fuzzy term 'design',
and also with the limited scope (yet accurately designating one of the many
expertise in the field) of the term meaning only the work by aestheticians.
Hence the suggestion to use, instead, the generic term of 'Concepteur', to
which respective additions are appended specifying respective expertise
('Concepteur en graphisme, Concepteur de produits, Concepteur de systèmes,
Concepteur de vêments, Concepteur en communications, Concepteur en
bâtiments, Concepteur en aménagements intérieurs, Concepteurs en
aménagements extérieurs, Concepteur de logiciels, Concepteur de mécanismes,
Concepteur de bijoux, etc. etc.).
Wondering if in other language communities there were or had been effort
made to come up with terms that specifically designate and conveys what
different experts intervening in the artifactual realm really do in their
respective sub-fields.
Francois
Montreal
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 9:29 PM, David Sless
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> (...)
> But you might find it useful to follow a strand of thinking the has been
> very important in the development of Information Design as a professional
> design practice. It relates specifically to the issue of specialist vs
> generalist knowledge, and it revolves around the idea of a Transformer. See
> the url below and some of the other material on the same web site.
> http://www.isotyperevisited.org/The%20transformer%20revisited.pdf
>
> David
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