Dear Terry,
Perhaps I missed something here. Martin Salisbury wrote, “In your demands for a Pol Pot ‘Year Zero’ approach to design research in posts under this heading and others over recent weeks (and recent years), you have variously described the inherent weaknesses of human beings in relation to design. Here are a just a few of them: “... (our) processes. are very varied and none (sic) as we perceive them.” … “... (our actions) different from what we subjectively perceive what we do.” … “(we are) incompetent” … “(we are) biased” … “...the illusions, delusions, errors, mistakes, fallacies, false premises of humans …”
Then Martin asked that “you please explain why we should believe that your own arguments and propositions are not similarly biased, flawed and unreliable?”
You responded by agreeing that you are “as bad or worse than anyone.”
Following this, you launched into an explanation of your views.
If you are delusional, and prone to errors, mistakes, fallacies, and false premises, why should we accept your explanations? What reason do we have to believe that design theory is in the dire state you proclaim? And what reason do we have to believe that your answers offer a way forward?
Martin has asked a sound logical question. Is there a logical answer?
Yours,
Ken
Ken Friedman, PhD, DSc (hc), FDRS | Editor-in-Chief | 设计 She Ji. The Journal of Design, Economics, and Innovation | Published by Tongji University in Cooperation with Elsevier | URL: http://www.journals.elsevier.com/she-ji-the-journal-of-design-economics-and-innovation/
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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