Dear Ken
Thank you very much for taking time to answer.
The point i am trying to make is this.
The process of producing knowledge and hence the produced knowledge is
what defines culture. An integral part to this is the aesthetic and
the ethical element.
If this is so, is it possible in assisting the 'other' to recover
their authentic being-ness.
As you can see 'modernity' is on a homogenizing path there for it is
also on an eliminating path. (post modernity is a trick that modernity
has constructed to divert attention- if fact both are same and just
constructs of the mind)
So what was in 'tradition' that was responsible for retaining diversity?
So will it be possible for us- who are in design education to
initiate, collaborate, participate in reviving the act of knowledge
production in respective cultures. Can we 'help' the Indian or the
Chinese students to awaken their own aesthetic sensibility? After all
the visible and the tangible aspect of culture is its aesthetic
sensibility that gets reflected in everything they make/ do.
Top down nature is the nature of modernity. We do this with children
and also with everyone whom we consider inferior.
just a thought
Jinan
Independent design researcher/ educationist etc
On 03/07/2016, Ken Friedman <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Dear Jinan,
>
> These are good questions, but answering would take more time and more words
> than makes sense in a post to the list. To answer the question, I’d have to
> explain what I mean by culture, by knowledge, and by the several levels and
> kinds of human institutions.
>
> To say that I have lived and worked in different cultures includes living
> and working in cultures that may look the same from the outside but differ
> greatly from the inside. I drove across America North to South and East to
> West many times, and halfway across Canada. There were many cultures and
> regional differences. Some were durable, bearing traces of centuries past.
> Others changed across the decades.
>
> When I went to Norway, a friend of mine in the Norwegian foreign ministry
> told me to be careful about what I thought the culture around me looked
> like. Many Americans think that Norway is much like America … it is, but it
> isn’t, and it takes years to see how very different it is. Sweden differs
> yet again to Norway, and the village in Skåne where I lived in Sweden across
> from Copenhagen is different to the villages in Småland where Kalmar is
> located.
>
> While I work in China, I know too little about modern China to offer a
> responsible answer. I know more about the great history of China, the
> science, the inventions, the past. I know something of the struggle to build
> the modern China. My experience has been a joy, but I cannot describe the
> culture in a meaningful way. That takes a sharp anthropologist such as Dori
> Tunstall, who goes there often and also speaks Chinese.
>
> The College of Design & Innovation is bold and adventurous. It is like no
> other design school I have seen. Even so, the problem is that I don’t know
> enough to explain it. I’ve only been working at D&I for only two years, and
> I am still learning. There is a spirit of entrepreneurship and innovation to
> everything at Tongji College of Design & Innovation. I don’t know enough
> about China to say that this applies everywhere — I find myself fascinated
> every day when I read China Daily. You can read the China Daily on the web
> at:
>
> http://europe.chinadaily.com.cn
>
> What I do not know about Chinese culture fills 10,000 years of books. I
> recognize that you see books differently than I do, but I’ve read much of
> Innis, most of McLuhan, and some Illich.
>
> This is not a good answer to your question. If you ask me again in five or
> ten years, I may have an answer.
>
> Warm wishes,
>
> 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/
>
>
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