Dear François,
Thanks for the reference. Yes, I do see some conceptual similarities and
did mark your use of ontological plurality in developing your thought. I
also enjoyed finding your discussion of images and “image-izing.”
You write: “All humans in all cultures “image-ize in one way or another….The
image can be spatially represented.” and “Image-izing is precisely what
geographers, engineers, architects and other designers do according to their
respective concerns.”
My respective concern as a designer was to create an image that could
portray a speculative model of designing, using its geography - or topology
- to suggest important conceptual relationships.
But as I said, this was just my personal set of “road” directions to an
unfolding “theory place,” where I believe much contemporary thinking about
designing to be heading.
Best,
Jerry
On 9/23/15, 11:26 AM, "François Nsenga" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 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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