Dear Jude
I cannot say I fully understand your vision of thomistic designerly
knowing, perhaps because it is so well clothed in the masculine pronoun. I
would be interested though, in knowing your opinion of the many attempts
to measure social value, as in the "Social Return on Investment" model
which seems currently favoured in after-neoliberal policy making?
Amanda
Institute of Design for Industry and Environment
College of Creative Arts
Massey University, Wellington
New Zealand
+64 4 8015799 ex 62555
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On 13/03/12 2:57 PM, "CHUA Soo Meng Jude (PLS)" <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
>snip
>One here needs to connect up with work in ethics and welfare economics...
>I think it would be very interesting to explore and develop the kind of
>designerly knowing that would be thomistic, and which sees creative
>designing as fully infused and guided by ethical precepts and ideals, and
>precisely as a kind of participation of the transcendent. Here man
>realizes, through his designing work, not only that work which he designs
>transitively, but his own value qua imago dei.
>
>In other words design needs to be fully involved in this discussion, but
>it must I feel, find the right allies.
>
>Jude
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