thanks,
burcak,
for your nice comments and agreement with the importance of tapping into the shared but not yet realized visions of people.
yes, intrinsic motivations come from a sense of understanding, from enjoying the doing regardless of outcome, and from appreciating being part of the process.
in connection with the discussion on the importance of aesthetics, I think, if one limits aesthetics to entirely visual phenomena, one will not recognize and therefore barely able to address the intrinsic motivation of human involvement.
best wishes
klaus
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From: Burcak Altay [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2017 3:19 AM
To: Krippendorff, Klaus <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: a side comment
Dear Klaus,
I often refer to your 'intrinsic motivation and human-centered design'
paper to reconfigure my work (in practice) and the way I relate to the course material and the students (in education).
and this morning I just read your post below and was extremely influenced. Real-ising from the imagined world of dreams and possibilities...and being open to them. I think this is what is intrinsically motivating and keeps us loving what we do.
To keep it short,
You inspire...
Thanks
Burçak
---------Subject: Re: What makes a iPhone an iPhone
ken,
a minor observation you said that you had seen the first mobil phone in 1987. i don't doubt that.
however, i have seen them in star war movies since 1977 cover and all.
it supports my frequent argument that design inspirations can also come from fiction, science fiction, novels, and myths. the are written to be read and understood or teach something unheard of and they can persist in mythologies because they offer dreams of possibilities. if designers take some of these ideas, they don't need to endlessly explain the new.
it fits into the conceptions of possibilities.
after all human beings flying was envisioned in greek myths .....
in view of the other thread about the importance of aesthetics. i wouldn't. discount it. but if designers read fashion magazines to absorb the latest visual fashion, get ideas of proportions and colors, they are bound to merely beautify what exists or making existing products more fashionable, sellable, and thus become appendices of the commercial interests, not pursuing the dreams and hidden aspirations we find in fiction.
just a. side comment
klaus----------
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Faculty of Art, Design, and Architecture Department of Interior Architecture and Environmental Design
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