Dear Lubomir
I am not sure if this will help. But the medievals used to distinguish the form from the thing itself. The form inheres in a thing, and is a principle of a thing, but not the thing in itself. It refers to its structure, or the code that captures the way in which aspects of the thing are related, and hence its system so to speak. A thing (being: ens, or thing: res) is a thing only when a form or a system comes into existence by being composed with the principle of existence (esse). In this way a system, which is a kind of a form, and the very idea of a thing, are distinguisheable, but do not belong to different paradigms.
Designers work on the form or system, I think, most evidently when they sometimes don't engage with the thing in itself but merely develop a blue-print, putting out the way aspects of things relate.
J
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Dear Colleagues,
Just a consideration:
Things and systems are concepts from different paradigms and thus they might be incommensurable.
What do you think?
Lubomir
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