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...you are absolutly right, I really forgot Peter-Paul Verbeeek, he wrote an excellent book (What Things Do. Philosophical Reflections on Technology, Agency and Design University Park, PA, 2005) where he gave a lot of references to Martin Heidegger and to my work The tradition of system theory and engineering design is quite different to the approach based on humantities - this makes the difference. Yours Bernhard_____ Erik Stolterman wrote: > Dear Bernhard and all > > Yes, I agree that your list contains many of my intellectual heros, that > also have done work that are influential for design. However, I usually make > a distinction between work that is intentionally (and language wise) about > design as a human activity, and work that is intellectually or theoretically > important and insightful and are relevant for design. Both are important, > but there is a differnce in the interpretative distance (if that is a > concept :-) As a reader it is not a difficult to interpret Krippendorff as > ideas about design, while for instance, when reading Habermas who does not > mention design directly, so some work has to be done by the reader in > applying the ideas. And then of course there are important writings in > between, such as Peter Paul Verbeek who is mainly interested in > understanding technology but also writes about design. > > Not that this distinction is really important, but I think when thinking > about design theory it is worth noticing those who intentionally are trying > to develop a theory about design. They should be more directly examined and > critiqued. > > Erik > > On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 1:44 AM, Prof. Bernhard E. Buerdek < > [log in to unmask]> wrote: > > >> Dear Erik and all, >> this is a list I was really expecting.... >> >> But in line with Klaus Krippendorff /The semantic turn (2006),/ where he >> said/:/ >> /"Design is making sense of things" /I am missing: >> >> Roland Barthes, >> Jean Baudrillard, >> Pierre Bourdieu, >> Umberto Eco, >> Jürgen Habermas, >> Tillmann Habermas, >> Hans-Peter Hahn, >> Charles Jencks, Helene Karmasin, >> Carl Eric Linn, >> Michael & Katherine McCoy, >> Rune Monö, >> Wim Muller, >> Andries van Onck, >> Deyan Sudjic, >> Susan Vihma >> John A. Walker >> and some others more. >> >> These are really useful for design theory, in the sense of Nigel Cross, >> that Design "is becoming a discipline". >> >> Yours >> Bernhard____ >> >> >> >> >> > >