Maybe you both are expressing something very usual to design discipline, if
there ever is one —
the plurality of concepts that, together, makes the very complex field of
design.
As a matter of fact, there is no problem in this kind of coexistence inside
the field, except when there is a struggle for power, any kind of power.
There will be ever designers with a deep knowledge on a special sector of
acting, moved by a certain kind of craftsmanship, and there will always be
those who understand design, even when they are not design professionals,
as the main road to recollect the multiple aspects of any kind of problem
in order to change a special situation, as well. By those, I really do not
mean a simple adhesion to Herbert Simon's positivist way of thinking. It
can also be appropriate to address the problems of men living in community.
The problem is how should us, design researchers, deal with such
indeterminacy of design concept and, on the other hand, work inside the
what we would call the boundaries of design.
João de Souza Leite | PhD, Professor/Post Doctoral Researcher |
ESDI/Uerj
School of Design/ State University of Rio de Janeiro/ Brazil
Rua General Artigas 361 #903 Leblon 22441-140 Rio de Janeiro, RJ Brasil
Telefones: 55 21 2294.3775 / 55 21 9.9768.8608
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On Mon, Jun 26, 2017 at 3:00 PM, Richard Herriott <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> The aim of improving the lives of others includes very many disciplines
> that are not design: medecine, psychology, firefighting etc.
>
>
>
> My aim is to demarcate design, however. In recent years design has become
> very widely defined and in so becoming an important (to design) aspect is
> being overlooked, namely how things appear and the meaning of how things
> appear.
>
>
> For a broader conception of design than the one I proffer, try this:
>
>
> Herbert Simon (1996) Social Planning - designing the social artefact. In
> The Science of the Artificial, 139-141, 153-167. MIT
>
>
> It´s also found in the very excellent Mapping Design Research (2102)
> Grand, S., Jonas, W. (eds). Birkhauser: Basel.
>
> ________________________________
> From: PhD-Design - This list is for discussion of PhD studies and related
> research in Design <[log in to unmask]> on behalf of Krippendorff,
> Klaus <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: 26 June 2017 19:44:41
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Are politicians designers? (Late edition)
>
> maybe improving the lives of others is a more important aim of design than
> the abstract conception of an aesthetics.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On Jun 26, 2017, at 12:30 PM, Richard Herriott <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> > Dear all:
> > My contention is that designers may plan but not all planners are
> designers. I would contend that among the key traits of design - in fact
> the key one - is the aesthetic and how to represent things visually. There
> are trained designers who do not draw and "design" that involves
> abstraction. Politicians are too far removed from this. Politics would be
> improved by using design and I include aesthetics since as David Pye noted,
> the aesthetic is moral.
> >
> > I wanted to run a conference on aesthetics as a core of design (not
> enough takers) if any of you are interested I can re-issue the call and
> arrange it again. It is associated with a journal and would be db peer
> reviewed.
> >
> > Richard Herriott
> > ________________________________
> > From: PhD-Design - This list is for discussion of PhD studies and
> related research in Design <[log in to unmask]> on behalf of Gjoko
> Muratovski <[log in to unmask]>
> > Sent: 24 June 2017 18:32:31
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Re: Are politicians designers? (Late edition)
> >
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> > Not too long ago we had a very interesting thread on design and politics.
> > Ken Friedman pointed out to an interview I conducted with Mitchell
> Sipus, a Presidential Innovation Fellow at the White House. Below is the
> note from Ken's email.
> >
> > ---Snip---
> >
> > "The current issue of the Journal of Design, Business, and Society
> features an in-depth interview with Mitchell Sipus - Presidential
> Innovation Fellow at the Obama White House. Editor-in-Chief Gjoko
> Muratovski describes the interview this way: “Sipus is an interdisciplinary
> designer and urban planner who works with complex socio-technical systems
> and has a particular interest in reconstruction of cities affected by
> future wars. Prior to joining the Obama administration as a Presidential
> Innovation Fellow, Sipus worked in some of the world's most challenging
> environments and most terrifying war zones from Afghanistan to Somalia. In
> the ‘Tour of Duty’ interview we will be discussing his background and
> experience, and why he has chosen to follow such a challenging career path.
> Also, we will discuss about what does it take for a designer to operate in
> this context and how does it look to work as an innovator at the highest
> levels of government. In the lead up to the interview, I will also
> summarize the Presidential Innovation Fellows program; how it all came
> about; why the US government is seeking innovators to work with
> politicians; and how this program is planned to evolve in the post-Obama
> years.”
> >
> > ---Snip---
> >
> > If you would like to read the interview, here is the opening excerpt and
> link to the full length interview. The discussion with Sipus is very
> interesting and sheds some light on how design is becoming increasingly
> powerful as a political tool.
> >
> > ---------
> >
> > Tour of Duty: A Conversation with Mitchell Sipus – Presidential
> Innovation Fellow at the White House
> > - by Gjoko Muratovski, Journal of Design, Business & Society
> >
> > Introduction
> >
> > In 2012, the President of the United States of America, Barack Obama,
> established the White House Presidential Innovation Fellows (PIF) program –
> a twelve-month ‘tour of duty’ program where select individuals were asked
> to serve as ‘entrepreneurs-in-residence’. His goal was to attract top
> innovators from a range of diverse fields into government and pair them
> with top civil-servants and change-makers at the highest levels of the
> federal government. The challenges that needed addressing sat on the
> intersection of technology, policy, products and processes. ‘We understand
> that outworn programs are inadequate to the needs of our time. So we must
> harness new ideas and technology to remake our government’ – the President
> proclaimed in his second inaugural address.
> >
> > The program was design-led and human-centered and the Fellows were asked
> to take on a citizen-centric approach to problem solving. They were given
> five guiding principles to follow: Discover (use design thinking to
> understand how people interact with the government); Design (develop
> responsive solutions that can be tested quickly and improved iteratively);
> Build (turn ideas into products and services by using an agile development
> approach); Measure (use metrics to evaluate the impact of these solutions);
> and be Lean (create effective solutions and services that will work for
> everyone and anyone). According to the White House, success of this program
> will mean ‘(…) saving lives, saving taxpayer money, fueling job creation,
> and improving how government serves the people’ (Presidential Innovation
> Fellows, 2015).
> >
> > Todd Park, then-federal Chief Technology Officer, was tasked with the
> recruiting. ‘Basically, what we’re looking for is badass innovators. [For]
> the baddest of the badasses out there to come to the government for focused
> six-to-12 month tours of duty to partner with our best innovators on
> game-changing projects’, Park told a TechCrunch conference in 2012.
> >
> > Since the launch of the program in 2012, 96 top innovators
> (entrepreneurs, executives, technologists and designers) have been
> recruited into this highly competitive program from across the nation.
> Fellows have partnered with leaders at more than 25 government agencies,
> and according to the White House, they managed to deliver impressive
> results within a matter of months rather than years in areas such as health
> care, open data and data science, crowd-sourcing initiatives, education,
> veterans’ affairs, jobs and the economy, and disaster response and
> recovery. The success of the program prompted President Obama to issue an
> Executive Order on 17 August 2015, making the Presidential Innovation
> Fellows (PIF) program a permanent part of the US Federal Government and
> moving it from the White House into the State Department.
> >
> > This initiative was well received by the US Congress, who codified the
> PIF program by introducing the TALENT Act. Senator Cory Booker stated the
> following in support of this new legislation:
> >
> > "The Presidential Innovation Fellows program has furnished our nation’s
> boldest engineers and technologists with a unique opportunity to work with
> government agencies on providing more innovative and engaging services to
> the public. (…) By making this program permanent, Congress can ensure that
> government keeps up with the pace of innovation while fostering
> transparency, saving taxpayer dollars, and developing collaborative
> programs that work for the American people."
> >
> > About Mitchell Sipus
> >
> > For this issue of the Journal of Design, Business & Society, I have
> conducted an interview with one of the White House Presidential Innovation
> Fellows – Mitchell Sipus, an interdisciplinary designer and urban planner
> who works with complex sociotechnical systems and has a particular interest
> in reconstruction of cities affected by future wars.
> >
> > It is hard to define what kind of designer Mitchell Sipus is. As a
> designer he was working in some of the world’s most challenging
> environments and most terrifying war zones such as Kabul and Mogadishu. He
> worked on rebuilding government infrastructures in war-torn Somalia; he
> studied Taliban warlords in Afghanistan; led projects on reduction of gang
> violence in Cairo; worked on redesigning Dadaab – the world’s largest
> refugee camp, which is based in Kenya; and was monitoring the destruction
> of cultural heritage in Syria. In an interview for Wired magazine, this is
> how Sipus described what a typical day of a fieldwork for him looks like:
> >
> > "In Afghanistan, if I put on a hooded sweatshirt and don’t say anything,
> I can walk around fairly freely and nothing happens. In Mogadishu, it’s an
> entirely different situation. It’s stressful. Every time you go anywhere
> you have a pickup truck of young soldiers. When I do get the opportunity to
> go somewhere, I usually can’t stay for more than 15, 20 minutes. You’re
> constantly in this position where you’re not sure, should I go out tonight?
> Should I walk down these roads? Can I spend time walking around meeting
> people? If I do that, can I come back tomorrow? It’s exhausting. On the
> other hand, when I first showed up, al Shabab had only been gone a handful
> of months, and it was like Mad Max."
> >
> > Sipus was also the first designer to work with the US National Security
> Council and he held meetings at the Pentagon, the Central Intelligence
> Agency (CIA) and at the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA).
> Yet, his work goes even further that this and his interests also lie in
> robotics and human–machine interaction. His next task as a PIF will be to
> lead a dramatic overhaul of State Department’s sociotechnical process to
> uphold nuclear diplomacy treaties, a process that has remained unchanged
> for more than 40 years.
> >
> > The work that Mitchell Sipus does defies conventions and challenges the
> existing notions of how far design as a profession can go in the
> twenty-first century. Even when we look at the forecasts of how the most
> important design jobs of the future could look like, we can see that Sipus
> already sits on the far end of some of these projections. Nevertheless, his
> appointment at the White House and the State Department further confirms my
> earlier trend forecasts on the new role of design in governments:
> >
> > "As the world becomes increasingly complex, governments will likely
> emerge as major new clients of design services. In the first instance, they
> will resort to commissioning design consultants that are experienced in
> social innovation and sustainability, and it is very likely that they will
> also start developing their own in-house design departments."
> >
> > While it is clear that the designers’ roles are evolving and that
> designers now hold bigger and more important positions in both society and
> business, we also need to understand that this is still an uncharted
> territory and we are yet to see how far designers can go. When it comes to
> applying design in sociopolitical contexts, we should also think about the
> extent to which politicians are prepared to introduce design into
> government? Also, we need to discuss about what kind of mindset and skill
> set designers should have in order to work in this area? And how does one
> venture into such a career in the first place? These were some of the
> questions I had for Mitchell Sipus.
> >
> > Follow this link to Vol.3, No.1 of the Journal of Design, Business &
> Society to access the full interview or to subscribe to the journal.
> > https://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-issue,id=3308/
> >
> > Alternatively, you can access the interview on my Academia.edu page by
> following this link.
> > https://www.academia.edu/32772880/Tour_of_duty_A_
> conversation_with_Mitchell_Sipus_Presidential_Innovation_
> Fellow_at_the_White_House_Journal_Article_
> >
> > (All references are included in the original file.)
> > --
> > Dr. Gjoko Muratovski PhD, FDINZ
> > Director and Endowed Chair: The Myron E. Ullman, Jr. School of Design
> > College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning (DAAP)
> > University of Cincinnati
> > Cincinnati OH, USA
> >
> > Guest Professor and High-End Foreign Expert
> > College of Design & Innovation (D&I)
> > Tongji University
> > Shanghai, China
> >
> > Visiting Professor
> > Department of Marketing
> > Copenhagen Business School
> > Copenhagen, Denmark
> > ------
> > Tel. +1 513.556.4230 (US Office)
> > Email: [log in to unmask]
> > Academia: http://uc.academia.edu/GjokoMuratovski
> > LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gjokomuratovski
> >
> >
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