Thanks to Ken and Terry for enriching my murky thoughts on specialization. I think there's a bridge here to thinking about academic disciplines but I'm going to have to fire up the GPS to find it. (Or perhaps I should think about more traditional orienteering in honor of the DRS conference being in Sweden.) And I was delighted to have Terry bring up Ronald Coase. As many of you may be aware, he died last week at the age of 102. Gunnar Gunnar Swanson East Carolina University graphic design program http://www.ecu.edu/cs-cfac/soad/graphic/index.cfm [log in to unmask] Gunnar Swanson Design Office 1901 East 6th Street Greenville NC 27858 USA http://www.gunnarswanson.com [log in to unmask] +1 252 258-7006 ----------------------------------------------------------------- PhD-Design mailing list <[log in to unmask]> Discussion of PhD studies and related research in Design Subscribe or Unsubscribe at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/phd-design -----------------------------------------------------------------