Dear Chuck,
A designer might simply do away with the shoe lace :)
Best wishes
Sabine
"Is it important from which phone I sent this?"
On 4 Sep 2013, at 14:59, Charles Burnette <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Yoad, Terry, Ken and colleagues
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> Yoad is right! My quick response was not what it should have been. Designing is not defined by what is given - shoe laces that need tying to hold a shoe to a foot, rocks on a beach, or the circumstances of any situation that becomes the focus of a need or a desire to change them or their expression. Designing is, instead, based on the intentional stance one takes toward the circumstances of interest. A design stance includes the desire to improve the expression of the focal circumstances as they are or as they may develop. In this case a designer is one who approaches tying a shoe as an opportunity to tie it in a better, more pleasing, more satisfying way (as a fashion designer might do, although probably by changing materials, patterns, and technology as well as the actions involved.)
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> Thanks Yoad,
> Chuck
>
> On Sep 3, 2013, at 5:20 PM, Yoad David Luxembourg wrote:
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>> Dear Chuck,
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>> Though I generally do agree with your 2nd paragraph, I think you were too rash to reject terry's example.
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>> In that point I think your idea of design thinking there is excluding the thinking done in fashion design. The the way in which shoe laces are tied can communicate a lot and even interpreted as a (design) statement, not to mention solving the problem of weak knots opening up - which can always call for improvement. In other words terry's act of tying shoe laces can be an act of designing requiring design thinking.
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>> In my humble perspective the difference between designing (the changing of existing situations into preferred ones) done by designers and the designing doctors or businessmen is that the final or achieved result must speak for itself - communicating its functional and cultural affordability(ies) without the use written or spoken language.
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