With great sadness I learn of the death.
I was lucky enough to have him as “office neighbour at RMIT” for short periods and I could appreciate his sophisticated humour and is sharp intelligence. His performance in Breme was unforgettable. But I also remember him because in one of “next door discussions” he passed me a very provocative paper he had just presented in a conference. I still use and suggest it to my students to give them a chance to reflect upon the nature of design and scientific research, theory and experiments. The paper is “Researching Design and Designing Research”, published some time later in Design issues vol 15 n. 2, 1999 (it is a development of his previous paper “why design research” mentioned by other colleagues in this list). When discussing this paper with my colleagues and students I borrowed is knowledge, but I also stole a bit of his irony.
Nicola
Nicola Morelli
Professor MSO
Department of Architecture, Design and Media Technology
Aalborg University
www.servicedesigner.dk<http://www.servicedesigner.dk>
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Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2014 00:32:40 +0000
From: Keith Russell <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>>
Subject: Re: Ranulph Glanville is Gone
Dear All,
Many members on this list knew Ranulph and will be saddened by the news of
his passing. His contributions over the years were always illuminating,
intense and disruptive in the best sense of the word.
Those of us who were at the Bremen conference some years ago will never
forget his musical performance that drew us all under his be-robed spell
for a time out of time. It was the irresistible living example of his
ideas of control as we played with sounds and made sounds out of our
control.
I also recall a dinner with Ranulph and a colleague, by the Hunter River
in Newcastle, Australia. The three of us in the semi darkness of a
harbor-side restaurant talked away the best part of an evening drinking
expensive wine (that someone else paid for) and eating local sea food.
This meeting could have taken place anywhere. It was a universal feast of
ideas that Ranulph set before us. Ever up for a challenge, I had a go, in
the Australian way, and found myself bested. I knew this would happen but
still, I couldn¹t resist.
Ranulph was at his best and us other two were there to witness the parade
and torture of half-baked assumptions that needed turning over. Ranulph
turned and re-turned the most complex of conceptions to our delight.
keith
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