Dear Alfredo
Your request reminded me of Charles Jencks's "The Century is Over, Evolutionary Tree of Twentieth-Century Architecture". A scanned image is available at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/archidose/3088862107/ From memory this is from Jencks, C (1971) Architecture 2000: Predictions and Methods, Studio Vista, London, UK but I'm away from the office so I can't confirm. This focuses upon architecture but may be of interest anyway.
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Dr Martyn Evans
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Lancaster University
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From: PhD-Design - This list is for discussion of PhD studies and related research in Design [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Alfredo Gutiérrez Borrero
Sent: 15 December 2011 13:33
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Subject: 'Maps' on the historical evolution of the design professions.
Dear Colleagues:
Lost somewhere in my computer (and sure, on the internet) there is a
complete graph, figure, diagram (or whatever name you wish to gave to it)
kind of Cartesian coordinate system with x and y axes, whose author or
authors showed the evolution, or historic expansion of the design field and
professions (graphic, product, information, interaction, experience, etc). This
diagram realizes both the emergence, decade by decade, for each of
these, aswell as of the individuals
and institutions that developed them in different places (and some people
who have excelled in them).
To give you an idea, the figure I'm looking for, is similar to several
diagrams inspired by design field representations such as Richard Buchanan's
four orders of design, or Klaus Krippendorff's Trajectory of artificiality,
but accompanied by some specific coordinates (persons, places, design and
professional specificities: pointing out the decade in which the last ones
appeared), unfortunately I could not remember the text, blog, article,
journal where it is, and where I saw it, and me been impossible to recoverit.
So I turn to you, asking by support of the best and most illustrative of
our collective memory. By the way, I thank you any additional link and
reference to similar diagrams and visualizations concerning the appearance,
and broadening in time of the design range of specialties (I'm interested
in doing an analysis of the compared mapping, cartography or historic
schematization of the field of design), the way it have been represented
along the way.
Best Regards,
Alfredo Gutierrez Borrero
Associate Professor
Industrial Design Program
Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano.
Bogotá, Colombia.
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