Dear Eduardo and all,
On 12/11/12 2:55 AM, you escreveu:
"Let me stress that we do not use design as a verb and Simon's proposition
refers to the verb. There is no conjugation of the verb design in our
language. So, either the rest of the world starts to adopt the English verb
or the English speaking show more curiosity in knowing what the global word
Design means."
I don't think it's really a matter of a lack of curiosity or disrespect and
more a matter of how language has a strong shaping influence on thinking. I
hadn't realized that there was no verbal conjugation of design in
Portuguese. But world communication has added other language perspectives
into the design of design and would seem to have stretched, enriched and
opened the idea to a multi-lingual conceptual blending.
What I think has happened to such situated artifacts as design and wicked
problems is that they have moved beyond their original and intended
affordances - as affordances are wont to do. Design, and however one
describes the rich processes of designing, has expanded into a wider
multi-cultural conception. Here's today's version of the expanded idea:
{processes of cultural making + purposes for cultural making + artifacts +
affordances historically in a cultural milieu}.
Wicked problems in their original conception helped us out of the too narrow
confines of a rational planning, where reason occupied the upstairs in an
upstairs-downstairs conception of the mind. Complaining that present-day
affordances don't match their original intentions seems like complaining
that people just aren't responding to my designs the way they were supposed
too.
Jerry
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