Dear Terry
You wrote:
"(...) The only really clear two criteria I could find for separating
different
> groups of design fields was ' taught in Art and Design departments', and
> 'uses degree level mathematics'. This results in three groups :
>
> 1. Art and Design fields. I came across a fairly definitive list from some
> research in the UL that identified around 40 different fields of Art and
> Design taught in universities in the UK.
> 2. The criteria of design fields' 'use of degree level mathematics for
> modelling' segregates the technical design fields into a single group. It
> is
> especially useful as it provides an almost clearly exclusionary boundary
> with the Art and Design fields.
> 3. Everything that is left is a group in which the design fields are
> neither 'taught in Art and Design departments' nor are technical design
> fields that 'use degree level mathematics'. For want of a better term, I'd
> called these the 'other' design fields." (...)
>
For the "Everything that is left", "the 'other' design fields", may I
suggest it to be the category of Science based Design that many among us
are advocating and practicing. This category would include, for instance,
all those Phd graduates in different sub-fileds of Design, since the last 3
decades and in times ahead.
Season greetings from Kigali
Francois
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