You might add my (2006) “The semantic turn; A new foundation for design” . A significant portion of the book is concerned with how language is involved in the process of designing and The human interaction It’s products entail. Metaphors are one important part of it. The other is design discourse, which ought to be attended to by designers cognizant of what they are doing. Bateson and Wittgenstein are behind most of it although neither of them dealt specifically with designing = intervening into the material culture of society
Klaus
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> On Jul 10, 2020, at 9:46 PM, David Sless <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Hi João and all,
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> A lovely. and well articulated post which captures an important aspect the designers' craft.
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> For those on the list interested in this way of thinking about design and design research, but are new to it, here are some seminal texts.
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> Bateson, G. (2000) [1972]. Steps to an Ecology of Mind: Collected Essays in Anthropology, Psychiatry, Evolution, and Epistemology. Chicago, Illinois: University of Chicago Press.
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> Goffman, E. (1974). Frame Analysis. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
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> Lakoff, G. & Johnson, M. (1980), Metaphors We Live By, Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
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> I would add to this the thinking of Ludwig Wittgenstein. But there is a problem with finding your way into his thinking, much of which is fragmented, incomplete, and needs an understanding of the ideas he was arguing against. Also he changed his mind quite radically half way through his life. It’s his latter work which I’m referring to all of which was published after his death. My own introduction to his way of thinking as an undergraduate, through the work of one of his students.
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> Winch, P. (1958) The Idea of a Social Science and its Relation to Philosophy, London, Routledge.
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> For me, in hindsight, one of Wittgensteins’ most illuminating works is his final work, found in his notes in a shoebox under his bed after his death and assembled into a coherent text by his executors (also philosophers).
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> Wittgenstein, (1969). On Certainty. New York: Harper and Row.
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> But that, as I said was in hindsight, after I had struggled for years to make sense of what he was about.
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> What these authors have in common though is relatively easy to give you a gloss on. They all took human action as central part of their interest: framing, metaphorising, and languaging—things people do.
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> I hope you find this useful.
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> David
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