Dear Klaus,
In 'The Forgotten Continent by Terry Pratchett is an old indigenous man, a god, who carries the whole world, the universe and everything in a dilly bag over his shoulder. Of course this is deep and metaphysical. It presents the problem, however, of the man himself, and his dilly bag containing the world and everything being inside that dilly bag, and of course that dilly bag that is contained in itself also contains him and his dilly bag.... An ontological difficulty in tems of definitions of identity of the indigenous man (and his dillybag), along with the act of containing.
You write,
'"One of the more important abilities of *designers* is to question what is commonly thought to be impossible. another is to create sufficient diversity to enable people to *design* their own world. " [My emphases]
Presumably the people who design their own world are also designers?
In which case, we have the dilly bag problem in design theory.
Or are you suggesting that there are two classes of designers 'designers who question what is possible and create diversity' and 'people who design their own world?
I like your extension of design activity to include users as designers and wonder if you would like to expand on it to explain how you see its implications for design activity and design theory (and also design research and education).
Incidentally, I presented the results of some research into similar issues about how users use designed artefacts to design their lives at the Asian Design Conference 2003 and argued the current conceptualisation of 'user' is overly restrictive.
Love, T. (2003). Customers' Use of Products as Design Tools. In Proceedings of the 6th Asian Design Conference. Tsukuba. (pdf)
A copy of the paper is at http://www.love.com.au/docs/2003/Prod-as-DesTools-TL.pdf Apologies that the paper is dated as it used Simon's definition of design rather than my current definitions (http://www.love.com.au/index.php/articles/22-defn-design ).
Best regards,
terry
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Dr Terence Love
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