Hi Ken,
Planck may have been correct at that time in Physics. In engineering design, however, change of models is rapid and commonplace. If a new model offers advantage, it is used. This doesn't mean he newest models are used everywhere. They first get used where they offer advantage. The advantages of using new models is easier to see in Engineering design than Art and Design because of the more significant role of testing in engineering design. As Art and Design outcomes become more subject to testing, it would be expected that this will create a drive for Art and Design designers to use better models and theories.
Best wishes,
Terry
<snip> The great physicist Max Plack put it well, “A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it”(Planck 1968 [1949]:
33-34). Nothing seems to suggest that designers or researchers in the design fields are any more likely to adopt models that work than physicians or physicists are.
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