Dear Colleagues,
In 1516 Thomas More wrote in Utopia:
“Nam totam hanc urbis figuram, iam inde abinitio descriptam ab ipso Utopo ferunt. Sed ornatum, caeterumque cultum, quibus unius aetatem hominis haud suffectum uidit, posterites adiiciendum reliquit. (More 131, 132)
This was translated Translated by Ralph Robinson in 1551 as:
“For they saye that kinge Utopus him selfe, even at the first beginning appointed, and drewe furth the platte fourme of the citie into this fashion and figure that it heth nowe, but the gallant garnishing, and the beautifull settinge furth of it, wherunto he sawe that one mannes age would not suffice: that he left to his posteritie.” (p. 79) (131, 132)
and finally translated by Gilbert Burnet in 1639 as:
“So that he who founded the town seems to have taken care of nothing more than of their gardens; for they say the whole scheme of the town was designed at first by Utopus, but he left all that belonged to the ornament and improvement of it to be added by those that should come after him, that being too much for one man to bring to perfection.”
So, King Utopus, designed Amaurot, capital of Utopia and thus, even though literarily, as a politician, he was a designer.
best regards,
Eduardo
> No dia 06/02/2017, às 15:40, Gunnar Swanson <[log in to unmask]> escreveu:
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> Francois,
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> If I am not mistaken, David was saying that half of the work of typical design projects is getting stakeholder buy-in and that failure to get broad support will doom most projects. That lines up with my experience. To that extent, I guess you could say that designers are politicians.
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> Gunnar
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>> On Feb 6, 2017, at 1:01 AM, Francois Nsenga <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> Dear David
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>> Could you please elaborate more on:
>> - those 50% potential risks of failure when dealing with political special
>> interests
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