Dear all
Maybe my interpretation is wrong, but seeing the following postscript
from Lubomir made me concerned enough to actually contribute to this
discussion.
"Considering this discussion, I also think we need to keep the tail
text that this is a discussion list of design scholars. No offence for
design practitioners, but we need a forum for exploring, making
errors, and finding the right way without hesitating what to say so
that people do not get offended. By the way, I would not have made
this argument on Practice-Design discussion list. I try to observe
certain boundaries."
My understanding is that this list is a place for "discussing PhD
studies and related research in Design" and therefore more inclusive
than the definition suggested above. Surely separating out
'practitioners' from 'scholars' will only make things worse. I know
that the vast majority of the ( 2000+ ?) subscribers to this list
don't comment and we see the same people commenting (something which
can only be the fault of those that say nothing), but I'd say most
read at least parts of it and that many of the watchers/readers will
be practitioners who are subscribed to the list to learn, expand,
consider and (if they ever get the courage) contribute to and/or
challenge what is being said.
If the list is narrowed down to design scholars only - I think we (all
design scholars, practitioners and scholar-practitioners) are missing
the point.
HOLLY MCQUILLAN
LECTURER
Institute of Design for Industry and Environment
College of Creative Arts
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On 11/10/2011, at 3:43 AM, Lubomir Savov Popov wrote:
> PS Considering this discussion, I also think we need to keep the
> tail text that this is a discussion list of design scholars. No
> offence for design practitioners, but we need a forum for exploring,
> making errors, and finding the right way without hesitating what to
> say so that people do not get offended. By the way, I would not have
> made this argument on Practice-Design discussion list. I try to
> observe certain boundaries.
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