Hi Klaus. What about a conceptual framework? Something 'in the making', open to scrutiny and the possibility of encouraging exploration? This might be something to be shared..... Tiiu Poldma University of Montreal ----- Original Message ----- From: "Klaus Krippendorff" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2005 1:50 PM Subject: Re: Design & Theory good suggestion. but we should not jump into using a metaphor without being clear of its entailments and clarifying how we can test its practicality or validity. obviously there are good frameworks and bad frameworks, frameworks that unduly constrain and frameworks that encourage exploration. how do we share a framework? klaus