On Thursday, August 23, 2012, eduardo corte-real wrote:
> Dear terry,
> Not only you are forcing me out of my vacations but you also forced me to
> register with this other email adress.
> So i just want To say that your plea and don's enthousiasm are a plea and
> an enthousiasm for ignorance.
> I recomend the reading of Stefan collini's "what are umiversities for"
> penguin books 2012.
> Greetings from Algarve's hinterland
> Eduardo corte real
>
> On Thursday, August 23, 2012, Keith Russell wrote:
>
>> Dear Terry,
>>
>> I take your propositions very seriously and, I have argued over time, as
>> a devil's advocate, that Design has no need of a history of Design , as
>> such.
>>
>> In my general approach with students I recommend that there are always at
>> least these four positions that might be usefully taken by an academic:
>>
>> the historical
>>
>> the analytical
>>
>> the critical and
>>
>> the theoretical.
>>
>> By historical I mean some contextual understanding that informs the
>> objects of attention. I don't really care when something happened unless
>> knowing when it happened helps inform what I am trying to understand.
>>
>> Knowing that something did actually happen/exist is probably the starting
>> point. That is, the phenomenological, spatio/temporal existence of things
>> (ideas included) is startlingly relevant to the here and now-ness of
>> designing. (I include the having-existed in this class of startling things.)
>>
>> This approach might best be seen as the history of being-here-now. I
>> think such kinds of history are very relevant to Design. Some part of such
>> histories might include catalogs and taxonomies and even slide shows of
>> things like ugly Coca Cola bottles on wet Wednesday afternoons.
>>
>> keith
>>
>>
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