Hi Francois,
I would think that making is often an important part of design.
For example, making seems at the heart of the crafts in general. I'm sure that many in the crafts see themselves as designers. Such making goes well beyond technical skills, though such technical skills may underpin the designing as well as the making. In research, exploratory designing and making can be a very powerful way of gaining understanding.
Terry's notion of 'specification' seems an elegant definition, so long as one accepts that the specification may be formed in many different ways including computer generated and physical models. In this case the specification may be modified and enhanced by the making.
I recently read the latest book on Jonathan Ive, and was struck by the extent of making by the design team as an intrinsic part of the process of designing and development. Understanding and taking decisions are facilitated greatly by comparison between iterative physical models, at least within this successful design team. It would seem here that Terry's 'specification' is manifest in both CAD modelling and its three dimensional output - but the physical models are the means by which decisions are made between the various departments. Making goes well beyond technical skills.
Kind regards,
David
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> On 8 Jan 2014, at 12:21, Francois Nsenga <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Dear Rob,
>
> Quoting from Richard Buchanan (2001), you wrote:
>
> "design is more than specification - it is - 'conceiving, planning and
> making'"
>
> I entirely concur on the 'conceiving, planning' part of your proposed
> definition of design; although, to me, both terms are synonymous - and not
> meaning 'more than' - with specifying an artifact. However, I hope you
> don't extend the definition of 'design' to 'making' processes that I tend
> to leave up respectively to technicians and skilled workers, more prepared
> and apt by training.
>
> Francois
> From warm, comfortable weather in Kigali!
>
>
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