Hi Don,
Thank you for providing this link and information about this initiative. I will be interested in the report outcomes. I have always been a proponent and initiator of arts-science partnerships, but the University silos still don't really support those types of collaborative unions. However, I am part of an arts and medicine/health initiative here at USF...not sure how it might evolve, we'll see.
An inter-arts design program within the College of the Arts is also being discussed here. It is unfortunate that "design" is not effectively represented in the national academies, as you describe. But then, being in the arts (especially dance) and in the area of disability studies, I have become accustomed to being left out of traditional categories, etc. Often, when I have applied for grants or awards, I have to write to the sponsor to explain the intersectionality of my work: linking design, dance and disability together. I applied for an innovation award fairly recently and I had to fit my invention into one of 4 categories - when it actually spilled into all 4 categories, not fitting neatly into any one. Ultimately, they plugged it into the medical area - under the heading "cure it." But, the goal of the device is not to "cure" someone from an ailment or injury. It is to broaden movement expression and artistic possibilities, offer additional options. It has a creative goal, rather than a narrow "fix it" goal. Human mobility is more than the purview of the medical industry. As soon as people hear the word "disability" everything becomes framed as finding a "cure" or fixing someone's "problem." But, we don't think of cell phones, computers, cars, bicycles, planes, or rolling office chairs as "cures" for human mobility problems/disabilities. It is certainly a challenge navigating the terrain.
How is your work/program at the design lab at UC San Diego going?
Best,
Merry Lynn
Merry Lynn Morris, MFA, PhD
Assistant Director and Faculty, Dance Program
College of the Arts
University of South Florida
American Ballet Theatre® Nationally Certified Teacher
Original Message
From: Don Norman
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Subject: Re: Design & Federal Funding
Um, let me expand a bit upon Michael's post.
On Thu, Sep 7, 2017 at 4:32 AM, Mitchell Sipus <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> NAS is responsible for advising the US Gov on scientific matters. There
> are many designers frustrated that design is poorly represented within US
> research grants. If you seek broader exposure of design, below is a simple
> but solid opportunity to make that impact.
>
> Mitch Sipus
>
> --------Forwarded MSG-------
>
> Dear Colleagues,
>
> The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine is preparing
> a consensus study on “Integrating Higher Education in the Arts, Humanities,
> Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine”.
>
> (http://sites.nationalacademies.org/PGA/bhew/humanitiesandstem/index.htm)
I am a member of the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and
Medicine (I'm in NAE, the Engineering one). Th only other designer I know
who is in the National Academies is Stanford's David Kelley (of d.school
and IDEO). (There are engineering designers. And there are a number of
people in Human-Computer Interaction (which is how I was allowed in).
The main reason our kind of design is badly represented is the fault of the
desiogn itself. Design is neither science, nor engineering (except for
engineering design which is mostly about optimization) and it certainly is
not medicine.
Until design establishes a deep science base, or is accepted as a core part
of engineering, it will not make it into the National Academies. Note that
David Kelley is in a department of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford.
I just logged in to NAE and went into the members Directory. There are
currently 2043 active members (plus 248 Foreign members). I tried to do a
search on the keyword "Design". I was given a list of kinds of design. All
were hard core engineering fields.
aircraft design, circuit theory and design, computer-aided design,
computer-aided design/manufacgturing, design and testing, design
engineering-general, design for manufacture, design policy and
productivity-general, design technology, equipment design, low observable
design, network design and operation, plant and systems design, structural
design and materials.
I tried to search for human-computer interaction (for NAE has ve quite a
number of HCI folks in the Computer Science division), but it was not an
allowable keywrd -- neither human-computer nor HCI). Under Human there was
only Human Factors.
There are roughly 100 people that get retrieved for the key words "human
factors". (that is my secondary category -- computer science is my major
one.).
One, Woodie Flowers of MIT is what i would call a designer. Eric Horwvitz?
(Microsoft resarch executive), Nancy Leveson? Interstingly, my name did
not appear. Nor did David Kelley. Kelley is listed as a mechnal engineer. I
am listed as Computer Scince and Engineeiring -- my secondary is Indutrial,
manufacturing, & Operational Systems (because that is where Human Factors
is located).
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In other words, the National Academies are not for us. Not yet, anyway.
don
On Thu, Sep 7, 2017 at 4:32 AM, Mitchell Sipus <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> NAS is responsible for advising the US Gov on scientific matters. There
> are many designers frustrated that design is poorly represented within US
> research grants. If you seek broader exposure of design, below is a simple
> but solid opportunity to make that impact.
>
> Mitch Sipus
>
> --------Forwarded MSG-------
>
> Dear Colleagues,
>
> The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine is preparing
> a consensus study on “Integrating Higher Education in the Arts, Humanities,
> Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine”.
>
> (http://sites.nationalacademies.org/PGA/bhew/humanitiesandstem/index.htm)
>
> -------
Don Norman
Prof. and Director, DesignLab, UC San Diego
[log in to unmask] designlab.ucsd.edu/ www.jnd.org <http://www.jnd.org/>
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