Dear Cameron,

My own view is that the design community, design educators in particular,
were discouraged from the systems perspective by the hard systems
methods introduced in the late 1950s through the 1960s.  As noted in my
Common Ground paper 'Generations in design methodology', this
experience led to the development of soft systems methods through the
1970s/early 1980s.  These methods seem well suited to dealing with
the 'wicked' problems so familiar in design practice.  We are introducing
soft systems methods into our industrial design program here next year,
to respond to what we believe is a significant gap in methodology at
present.

Kindest,
John Broadbent

Senior Lecturer,
Faculty of Design, Architecture & Building,
University of Technology, Sydney,
Australia.

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Date: Friday, October 4, 2002 11....................