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Yes indeed, designing is nothing else but embodying space in order to better 'populate' it: i.e. use it for our best advantage, with the least advantage. That is how I understand the kind of both quantitative and qualitative knowledge specific to, or needed for embodying various shapes of and in space, that we and 'others' call artifacts, objects, etc Francois On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 5:35 PM, Klaus Krippendorff < [log in to unmask]> wrote: > i've just received an interesting video by an astronaut and physicist. the > email stated: > > "Yesterday on May 18th, the first Dutch astronaut Wubbo Ockels died at the > age of 68. > > In spirit of Ockels, I want to share with you his TEDx video from 2009 on > his conception of time and gravity: > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaV-GeAPSlE > > Mike van de Wijnckel." > > true or not, to me, it provides several lessons: > one is that time does not exist in the universe but it is our construction. > not making the assumption of the givenness of the universe, opens > possibilities for explorations otherwise unimaginable. > the core of design ought to include questioning what others take for > granted. it creates the spaces we can populate. > > klaus > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------