Dear Terry,
Re: nope @ observation 1.
This is an observation from considerable historic evidence, Terry. People
do respond unpredictably in the ways that they interpret and make use of
(afford) human artifacts from ideas to Parthenons. I don¹t think, for
example, that Phidias, Ictinus and Callicrates ever intended their temple to
be used as a mosque, army barracks, ammunition dump or women and children¹s
shelter. Or that their ³Elgin Marbles² end up on display in the British
Museum.
Who would have projected that the now world famous La Giaconda smile would
need to be housed in France behind bullet-proof glass? Or that the Villa
Gamberaia would turn into a Nazi command center? Or a railroad car into a
roadside café? Or that a neighborhood park I designed would, in hard times,
turn into a ³drugstore?²
The architect Louis Kahn recommended making good rooms, rooms with
character, so that they might still enhance and serve the design lives
beyond the one they were originally intended for. In my urban design work,
I¹ve often followed Kevin Lynch¹s advice to make framework plans. He called
them scaffolding that people could hang their own meaning on. Both of these
designers recommended against ³particularly tightly circumscribed design
outcomes,² - for epistemological reasons - and they were great designers
indeed.
Jerry
On 8/22/13 4:55 PM, "Terence Love" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hi Jerry,
>
> Thank you for your 'observations'.:
>
> <snip> '1. The locus of affordance of design outcomes is indeterminate in
> dynamic social systems.'
> Response: Nope. The locus of affordance of design outcomes is particularly
> tightly circumscribed in dynamic social systems. There are many reasons and
> explanations as to why this is so. One of them is the reason Jerry was
> responding to my previous post.
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