Adrian Snodgrass and Richard Coyne's work on
designing as a hermeneutic activity negotiates
similar issues as Iser's proleptic looping.
There is an essay in Design Issues but I can't
find the reference just at the moment, sorry.
Harold Nelson's and Eric Stolterman's
nice characterisations of the way design-as-
being-in-service aims at the 'surprise of self
recognition', that is the 'expected unexpected'
that comes from the dialogical development of
an 'uncommon understanding' between conspira-
torial clients and designers, seems to point
in a similar direction: see their 'The Design
Way' [Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Educational
Technology Publications, 2003]. In that case,
the guard-rail preventing the slide into re-
cursiveness is the emergent shared felt
sense of the to-be-articulated problem.
This seems to me similar to Eugene
Gendlin's very interesting work on 'focusing'
(crossing and dipping). See his more recent
essays at:
http://www.focusing.org/gendlin_articles.html
"What is most thought-provoking in
these most thought-provoking times
is that we are still not yet
thinking" Martin Heidegger
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Keith Russell wrote:
> Question for Klaus Krippendorff and anyone else interested.
>
> Dear Klaus
>
> Looking recently at Wolfgang Iser's stuff on textual analysis, I was
> wondering how you view a cybernetic account of interpretation
> (looping) in relation to design thinking?
>
> I haved been mucking around with modifications (qualifications?) of
> CS Peirce's notion of abductive logics. Iser's stuff (quote given
> below) would seem to provide a pretty well elaborated "humanities"
> approach to the issue of recursive modes of thought. For me, Iser's
> point is that with interpretations of texts there is always a
> presumed text that is given - not as a fixed part but as determined
> or determinable part of the looping.
>
> In the case of design thinking the loop does not have this kind of
> control point. Does this imply that the "wicked" nature of design
> problems arise, in terms of the recursive/abductive logic, from the
> absence of any kind of determined or determinable control/text? [Iser
> quote at end]
>
> all the best
>
> keith russell OZ newcastle
>
> Iser : First of all, I would not call it a model [cybernetic account
> of interpretation]. Recursive looping is a strategy of interpretation
> that may well be combined with other strategies such as the
> hermeneutic circle. There is some kind of feeding forward and feeding
> backward going on even in an interpretation of a text. If initial
> guesses and hunches do not tally, their 'inadequacies' have to be fed
> into a renewed attempt for fine-tuning further outputs. Something
> similar happens in the talking cure of psychoanalysis. There is
> always some kind of looping going on in our otherwise predominant
> circular procedure and vice versa. It depends on the subject matter
> to be tackled in interpretation which procedure is given prominence
> and which remains subservient. Furthermore I should not like to call
> the operational mode of these procedures dialectic. There is actually
> no synthesis to be aimed at when something is translated into
> something else. In other words, the so-called result you arrive at is
> not a resolution, but it is an arrival in terms of what you intended
> to do with regard to the looping, and it may lead you to results
> which may not have been in the orbit initially?
>
> http://pum12.pum.umontreal.ca/revues/surfaces/vol6/iser.html Wolfgang
> Iser's "On Translatability" Roundtable Discussion Surfaces Vol.
> VI.106 (v.1.0A - 14/08/1996) - ISSN: 1188-2492
>
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