Hi Jurgen, Good point when you asked: "My question here is, does anybody have an idea where design as a discourse isn't defendable?" My answer would be: Design as a discourse is not defendable when you want to isolate design from all other discursive forms (in order to define design not as discourse). Best, Eduardo ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jurgen Faust" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Monday, July 07, 2008 6:17 PM Subject: design as discourse Hi All, I recently finished a very important research to define contemporary design approaches but I looked into more historical documents as well and then I realized also state that design is discourse as Krippendorf or Sarkinnen didas well. And when I studied Foucault design is discourse is also a sustainable statement as well from the Foucault perspective reading some parts of the Archeology. Because the textual matter changes, but a discourse is observable also when the discourse community changes. My question here is, does anybody have an idea where design as a discourse isn't defendable? Jurgen Faust Prof. Media Design MFM Munich CAO, Gruppo IED Milan