Dear Terry, Dear all,
Just two brief remarks.
1. Terry Love stated:
'Design activity as a search through solution space' offers a simpler
and epistemologically sounder basis for coherently describing the detail
of both 'Thinking through Making' and 'Research through Design'. Oh, and
its good for graphic Design too.
Can you provide any evidence for this? [I've been interviewing graphic
designers for a while and not a single one - ever - described their work
as 'searching through solution space'. It is not a description that is
used in practice at all.] Why would this be 'better' and 'good for
graphic design'?
2. Process.
Step by step numbered sequential design processes don't seem to be
accurate descriptions of design practice. [Yes, they are useful for
invoices, admin-systems, and some forms teaching.]
Donald Schön described designing as 'a web of moves' in 1983 and 1987.
Schön's protocol analysis indicates that there are distinguishable moves
and that the sequence of these moves is a concious decision.
This 'web of moves' where activities influence both the selection and
the approach of the next activity can be seen in many of my interviews
with graphic designers.
[And yes, I've checked the invoices of graphic designers in the Dutch
Design Archives (NAGO). Graphic designers do not distinguish the
different moves within 'design': most invoices just state "Design per
hour". It's interesting to see how graphic designers describe their
different moves and charge for them.]
I have not discovered any invoices yet that mention: "Searching through
solution space" ...
Kind regards,
Karel.
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References:
Schön, Donald. 1983. The reflective practitioner. Basic books. Page 94
states: "Quist designs by spinning a web of moves, consequences,
implications, appreciations, and further moves." Page 99 states: "The
web of moves has many branchings, which complicates the problem of
discovering and honoring implications."
Schön, Donald. 1987. Teaching the reflective practitioner. Jossey Bass.
Page 42: "Their designing is a web of projected moves and discovered
consequences and implications, sometimes leading to reconstruction of
the initial coherence - a reflective conversation with the materials of
a situation."
NAGO: http://www.wimcrouwelinstituut.nl/nago/ (In Dutch only).
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