On Dec 29, 2013, at 11:24 AM, Gunnar Swanson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> Terry,
>>
>> On Dec 29, 2013, at 11:14 AM, Terence Love <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>> 1. A return to the model of design activity as being undertaken by
>>> engineering designers and stylists
>>>
>>> 2. Increased computerised automation of the creation of designs so
>>> that designers use emotion but are hardly involved in the creation of
>>> designs
>>
>>
>> I'm not sure that I know what you mean by either of these and am particularly in the dark about #2. Can you give some concrete examples of what "creation of designs" means?
On Dec 29, 2013, at 8:23 PM, Terence Love <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Gunnar, to answer one of your questions from a different thread, the
> ethological focus is why I write about 'creation of designs' using the
> rather flat technical meaning of ' any creation of a specification [design]
> for something to be made or done' , rather than using the human-centric,
> meaning-laden and emotionally laden, common folk definition of
> 'creativity'.
Terry,
Nobody, of course, would think that the phrase "creation of designs" means "creativity." "She was the person who was responsible for the creation of the design" does not sound anything like "She was the person who was responsible for creativity."
So I'm not sure how what you say is "to answer one of [my] questions." I'm assuming that it is in reference to my having asked "Can you give some concrete examples of what 'creation of designs' means?" Note that you have neither explained what the phrase means (defining "creation of designs" as "any creation of a specification [design] for something to be made or done" is a bit on the tautological side) nor have you given a concrete example that would help me understand what you are meaning to say. (Your definitionish thing does get us a little closer in that it indicates that "specification" seems to equal "design" but I suspect that a design must be some specific sort of specification. Or am I wrong? Is every specification a design?)
Can you give examples of how someone might "use emotion" but be "hardly involved in the creation of designs"?
Gunnar
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