Dear Jerry,
From a different view angle I explored and briefly uncovered a few years
ago in this publication below, are we both seeing things in the same
perspective?
The Geography of Material Artefacts and an Outline for
Synergetic Geography (Co-authorship with Gary Backhaus).
In EARTH WAYS: Framing Geographical Meanings. Edited by Gary Backhaus and
John Murungi. Lanham, MD.: Lexington Books, 2004, pp. 95-114.
On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 2:24 AM, Jerry Diethelm <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> For me design theory today is an evolving image that is coming into focus.
> I think of it as a:
>
> Theory Place
>
> When asked if he had discovered gold in the new world, the great Spanish
> explorer, Coronado, supposedly replied,
>
> ³Although we did not find the gold for which we sought, we found a
> wonderful
> place to look for it.²
>
> Such I believe is also the case for late-modern design theory. I think we
> have found an especially promising place to look for it. There are, richly
> and increasingly, a number of useful maps and guides for how to get there,
> but I think they are all pointing - at least roughly - to the same
> conceptual region. Here is my personal GPS set of directions to this
> theory
> place:
>
> If you take the ontological road of axiology that I call valuing and
> meaning
> to where it intersects with the ontological road of epistemology, or more
> objective ways of knowing, you will have reached this late-modern theory
> place. I call it late-modern because it acknowledges both the possibility
> and the necessity of complementary ontological points of view. Without the
> former, one wouldn¹t know what was desired or why something needed to be
> done. Without the latter, one wouldn¹t know how or be able to do it.
>
> The image of a crossing or intersection conceptually portrays a region that
> becomes whole through the interaction of multiple ontological perspectives,
> where each reacts to and integrates the significant formative influences of
> the other.
>
> Beyond the incidence of ontological intersection, the geography of this
> theory place captures the spatial consequence of that meeting, which is the
> creation of a dynamic poetic region, a culturally situated and conditioned
> field where people and their agents are immersed and engaged in desired
> situational transformations, and where all manner of meaningful artifacts
> become forged and expressively brought into being by and for their owners.
>
> Photographically,
>
> Jerry
>
>
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