Dear Terry,
The report from Chile is interesting, important, and useful. It remains irrelevant to the issues you initially raised with respect to the design field.
The report requires strategic capacity at the government level. It takes a human organisation with managers to mount such projects as the planning room. It takes massive organisational resources to build a platform that can model an entire economy in real time. Stafford Beer's Viable Systems Model is suitable for such tasks. It is unsuited to the problems of a professional field and a research field without the capacity for general strategic planning and without mechanisms such as governance, finance, or — in the case of a national economy — taxation.
Rather than irrelevant links and reports, I’d like to know how you propose we use Beer's Viable Systems Model to solve the problems of the design field.
If you don’t plan to answer, I’m happy to stop asking.
Yours,
Ken
Ken Friedman, PhD, DSc (hc), FDRS | Editor-in-Chief | 设计 She Ji. The Journal of Design, Economics, and Innovation | Published by Elsevier in Cooperation with Tongji University Press | Launching in 2015
Chair Professor of Design Innovation Studies | College of Design and Innovation | Tongji University | Shanghai, China ||| University Distinguished Professor | Centre for Design Innovation | Swinburne University of Technology | Melbourne, Australia
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