In a message dated 02/01/2001 8:56:03 AM Pacific Standard Time,
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Rosan,
I think you have asked one of the most important questions of our field.
I was recently directed to this site:
http://www.jameswhitehead.org
It requires a computer with sound capabilities and Windows or other media
player. These come standard with recent versions of Windows and Mac OS.
The issues discussed titled "Postmodernism" relate to a unifying theory for
design, science and culture. The Postmodernist discussion is more to do with
writer's notion of Postmodernism first discussed in the 1930s than the Milan
1979 Sottsass et al. notion of Postmodernist design. I believe Postmodernist
Italian design ended being and expression of Italian Culture more than
Postmodernist thought. I think that the ideas are worth revisiting in new
ways.
The discussion is a well researched summary of converging thought in many
areas related to design, culture and the future.
I think that it is one of the more useful discussions of the area of design I
have heard.
It is worth listening to all 17 short dialogues given in a synthesized female
voice because they contain many useful ideas for those not deeply aquainted
with the discussions by writers like Baudrillard and Hawkins amongst many
others.
In my view, these people are the Galileos of today.
Rob Curedale
