M P Ranjan:
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You make me sound like some strange "fakir" dancing around a fire in search of strange illicit ideas! Perhaps you should read Jon Kolko on design synthesis, indeed The Magic of Design is the title of one of his books. Kolko is a young researcher who seems to have got it right.
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I do apologize if I appear to have intended to paint you as a fakir. That's not what I had in mind. It was an honest question. When I wrote it, I had the following E. O Wilson quote in mind:
“Reason and revelation, the two conceivable sources of knowledge.”
Edward O. Wilson, Consilience (1998, p. 35)
While noting that Wilson is a scientist, he is also a researcher and theorist. His book Consilience is also about synthesis, per the definition of the word of the title.
Ken’s post captured what I might have said about evidence and designed things that do not exist yet.
Thanks for suggesting Kolko. I do know him and his views personally. He spoke at the “Connecting Dots” AIGA design research conference we hosted at University of Cincinnati last year. As you might guess, I was/am not as enamored by his magic as you are.
And my knees are still fine, thank you for asking.
Best...
Mike Zender
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