Dear Brita,
Do you know of the recently published PhD thesis of Jan Carel Diehl (Delft
University of Technology, the Netherlands), titled Product Innovation
Knowledge Transfer for Developing Countries: Towards a Systematic Transfer
Process'? You will find it at http://repository.tudelft.nl/
Best wishes
Henri Christiaans
On 8/8/11 4:21 PM, "Brita Fladvad Nielsen" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>Dear Francois
>
>Your comments made me happy.
>
>I am currently trying to find good articles especially on how the
>traditional knowledge transfer model is a way to push foreign "western"
>ideas on indigenous communities and the negative impact it can have on
>development and creativity. I have seen so many solutions not work in
>Africa and how one way, linear, knowledge transfer can do harm and so not
>supportive of the human resources on site. I was hoping someone had
>written something fundamental and design-related about it from a
>research perspective.
>
>Kind regards
>Brita
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: PhD-Design - This list is for discussion of PhD studies and related
>research in Design [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
>Francois Nsenga
>Sent: 8. august 2011 15:28
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: Lecture posted: Concerning Design Ethics for International
>Peace and Security
>
>Dear Derek
>
>You recently referred us to a lecture you delivered at the University of
>Gothenburg in October 2010, on "Design Ethics for International Peace and
>Security".
>
>In your lecture you invited the audience to "conceptualize and situate
>design in a continuum between knowledge and action". I hope, in your
>mind, this continuum is not of a linear type; rather, a circular one in
>which each stage endlessly feeds on the previous ones: knowledge drawn
>from action, knowledge informing design, design instructing action.
>
>I also hope you meant by 'knowledge', not only 'borrowed' knowledge from
>foreign socio-cultural contexts, but the local, indigenous knowledge as
>well. My personal observation is that most of the world conflicts arise
>when foreign knowledge, foreign design, and foreign modes of action are
>somehow imposed on people, in total or partial replacement of their own
>"ethos" and "ethics". Again, two weeks ago, I was on a short visit in
>Rwanda, and I was told that it is now a public policy over there to have
>all dwellings only made with (imported) corrugated iron sheets roofs, and
>in village type of land occupation. Apparently traditional separate
>thatched roofs are now forbidden! (...)
>
>Third, I hope by "design" you meant the overall view of artifacts
>conception, production and use, and not only the classical reductive role
>assigned to the profession, as merely ancillary to economic production
>exclusively meant for maximizing profits on investments.
>
>Best regards
>
>Francois
>Montreal
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