dear francois,
i do not see myself in even mild disagreement, except having formulated what i wanted to say too fleetly. of course, a law is an artifact. it's man-made just as the specifications for a design. both serve as communications and when they are effectively communicated, they become transformed into something other than the paper they were written on, the presentation that explained a design's workings, or the drawing meant to convince someone of its systemic properties. i should have said "a law is not the materiality of its intended implementations."
thanks for your comment
klaus
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MILD DISAGREEMENT
Dear Klaus,
I wholeheartedly agree with and entirely support what you wrote below. That is why in my other post a few minutes ago, I complemented Terry's definition by adding, among what I consider professional designers tasks to be, the very important and yet often neglected concept of 'specifications to use' by others, as an indispensable complement to 'specifications to make'.
I only disagree a little bit when you say below that "a law is not a thing". To me, a law is as well a designed immaterial artifact, often embedded into various material ones for communication to and enforcement by others in a given community. At least that is how I see it for now!
Best regards,
Francois
Kigali
On Sat, Feb 4, 2017 at 9:38 AM, Krippendorff, Klaus < [log in to unmask]> wrote:
> in my reading, the posts on this thread respond largely to the problem
> of defining a designer identity in contrast with other identities. i
> don't think this is a useful path.
> (...)
>
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