Dear Doreen,
The operative term here, for me, is ³experienced². Separating design from
art, in a pragmatic gesture, may well be reductionist but asserting the
³visual and sensory aspects of our being and becoming² is equally in
danger of a kind of essentialism. Existence precedes essence? I may well
determine beauty in a house brick and the brick maker may well assert an
intention to make a beautiful brick. Nonetheless, it is my experiencing
that brings about the value. Freeing the brick to be a thing in itself, I
am free to my becoming. The alternative is to be haunted by beautiful
things like ball point pens and their engineering precision that survives
plane crashes unscathed.
Cheers
keith
On 28/6/17, 5:04 am, "PhD-Design - This list is for discussion of PhD
studies and related research in Design on behalf of Doreen Balabanoff"
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>Corbusier cannot be so summarily dismissed if one has experienced his
>best works. Design separated from art is reductivist and sadly lacking in
>an understanding of the meaning and power of the visual and sensory
>aspects of our being and becoming (nature our best teacher - see McHarg).
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