Dear Chuck
It was a pleasure meeting you in Barcelona last week and it was indeed a
very stimulating meeting there.
I would encourage you to continue to pursue your research and writings
which stem from the revisiting of "First Principles" and I am sure that
this will give design and the design research a solid ground on which the
theory of the discipline could be built. The established methods of science
enquiry may not be the only way forward and design is indeed another way
and it must discover its foundations through reflections on practice as
well as such search for "first principles" that you propose here.
When I joined NID as a young student in 1969 we had several meetings with
the Institutes founders, Gautam Sarabhai and his sister Gira Sarabhai. In
these meetings they repeatedly asked us to return to first principles when
investigating a design need in our country and this kind of research
enquiry has been part of our working tradition at the NID over the years.
In the early 90's I had started work on writing a paper based on my
experiences at NID and I had a working title for this in mind "Ideological
Perspectives in Design" and I did work on it for some time but I gave this
up since I did not feel adequately prepared to tackle all the complex
dimensions of this enquiry at that time although I had several insights on
this matter. Much later in 2009 I prepared a lecture for the Istanbul
Design Conference titled "Ethics in Design" where I was able for the first
time to crystalise and develop my model of the "Three Orders of Design" and
this is still work in progress as far as I am concerned. You can see more
about this paper and presentation from my blog at this link below and also
download the show and other related papers from here.
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http://design-for-india.blogspot.com/2009/10/ethics-in-design-istanbul-conference.html
>
Good luck with your enquiry and we do look forward to some new insights on
this very complex area called design and design thinking.
With warm regards
M P Ranjan
from my iMac at home on the NID campus
24 November 2011 at 10.55 pm IST
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On 25 November 2011 22:32, Charles Burnette <[log in to unmask]>wrote:
> Dear Per, David, Nathan, Ken and colleagues
>
> Thank you for bringing to my attention the work being done at CEPHAD, and
> by others. Because I was working to explore the implications of my Theory
> of Design Thinking I did not attempt to pursue existing work in the field.
> Rather I chose to reason directly from Daniel C. Dennett's ideas of
> Intentional Stance as applied to the modes of thought I had identified in
> my PhD dissertation and explored in subsequent years. I am not as
> interested in justifying my writings against other work as I am in
> formulating a coherent approach that can be pragmatically applied. I was
> both gratified and informed by this non-referential approach. I believe
> that the philosophical system that resulted can become a potentially
> significant contribution to the field that with further development can
> facilitate the organization, analysis, and application of different
> philosophical points of view regarding design and design thinking. I will
> be developing the thoughts in this paper further and will also address the
> moral, ethical, economic, and social implications of the theory. I am
> posting all of my current writings on academia.edu as a means to
> circulate the ideas and gain feedback about them.
>
> I would welcome thoughts regarding the actual content of the paper and the
> proposal it contains.
>
> Chuck
>
> On Nov 12, 2011, at 6:06 AM, Per Galle wrote:
>
> > Dear Chuck,
> >
> >
> > I downloaded the paper that you announced yesterday, and I'm looking
> forward to having a closer look at it. Are you planning to publish it more
> formally?
> >
> > Just one comment on your remark that "there isn't much of a similar
> nature out there that I know of": Perhaps not, but for what it is worth, I
> can offer a small list of whatever I have become aware of so far: the
> CEPHAD Bibliography.
> >
> > CEPHAD is the Centre for Philosophy of Design. Its home page is at
> www.cephad.org.
> > The bibliography can be found at www.cephad.org > Literature >
> Bibliography.
> >
> > If you - or anyone else on this list - are aware of relevant items that
> are missing from the bibliography, suggestions would be much appreciated.
> >
> >
> > :^) Per
> >
> >
> >
> .......................................................................................
> > Per Galle
> > Lektor / Associate Professor
> >
> > Det Kongelige Danske Kunstakademis Skoler
> > for Arkitektur, Design og Konservering
> > Designskolen
> >
> >
> > The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts,
> > Schools of Architecture, Design and Conservation
> > School of Design
> >
> > Philip de Langes Allé 10
> > DK-1435 København K
> > TEL +45 35 27 75 00
> >
> > DIR + 45 35 27 76 33
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> >
> > www.kadk.dk
> >
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> >
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> >
> > Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2011 11:07:44 -0500
> > From: Charles Burnette <[log in to unmask]>
> > Subject: Philosophy and Design Thinking
> >
> > Those of you interested in how philosophy might inform design thinking
> may find the paper "Philosophical Modes in Design Thinking" now available
> at www.independent.academia.edu/CharlesBurnette/papers worthwhile - there
> isn't much of a similar nature out there that I know of. I'd appreciate
> your comments and references.
> >
> > Chuck Burnette
> >
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