Dear Stéphane Vial
Bruno Munari's Design as Art is a real classic
*http://tinyurl.com/mzj83r3*
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*
with warm regards
M P Ranjan
from my Mac at home
30 October 2013 at 10.30 pm IST
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On 30 October 2013 21:34, Stéphane Vial <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I remember that a strong and long discussion happened on this list about
> Design as an Art or not. I must confess that I didn't read all of it at the
> moment, but I will. I am currently looking for good and strong papers about
> this issue.
>
> In France, where I live and teach, the aesthetical tradition is very strong
> (as argued my colleague Stéphane Laurent in this* Design Issues* paper :
> http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/DESI_a_00144), and tends
> to
> consider Design as one of the Arts instead of an independent academic
> discipline.
>
> On the other side, the pragmatical approach (considering design as a
> self-grounded discipline in the field of action) is less developed and
> mostly represented by my colleague and friend Alain Findeli, who is a
> member of the Editorial board of *Design Issues*, that a lot of you already
> know. Of course, I often talk and discuss with him about that in our
> university, in Nîmes.
>
> But I'm sure many of you have already addressed this question in some
> papers or just know strong papers about it. I'm looking for 2 kind of
> papers : those that defend the idea of Design as an Art and others that
> defend the idea of Design as something else.
>
> Any idea or suggestion ? I would prefer some "classicle" references but, of
> course, I'm curious of more recent approaches.
>
> Thanks.
>
> --
> *Stéphane Vial *
> Docteur en philosophie
> Maître de Conférences en Design à l'Université de Nîmes
> Responsable de la Licence Arts Appliqués
>
> Chercheur à l’Institut ACTE (UMR 8218)
> Équipe SEMIOTICS : "Sémiotique des Arts et du Design"
> CNRS/Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
>
> Home page : www.stephane-vial.net
> Dernier livre : www.etre-et-ecran.net
>
> *Associate Professor of Design at the University of Nîmes (France)*
> *Head of the Bachelor of Applied Arts Program*
> Researcher at the ACTE Institute, Sorbonne Paris 1 University
>
>
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