On Sun, 1 Oct 2000, Richard Buchanan wrote:
> the editors of that well-established journal. The point, I think, is
> that what we are doing in design studies can and does attract attention
> from people in other fields. It should give us some hope and some
> confidence to keep moving ahead.
I'd like to record a personal observation, which is similar to that of
Dick's, from another field, economics. For the last 3 years, with a few
colleagues, we attended an international economics conference in Turkey,
which were also attended by many well known and respected names of
economics such as Sanjaya Lall and Giovanni Dosi. Passing through a
rigorous refereeing process, as expected in the fashion of a well
established academic field, papers written by design academics on the
relationship between design and economics at different levels found
themselves a firm place in this conference.
I agree that design attracts the attention of other disciplines, and such
appearances of design in the academic events of established disciplines
increase the confidence in the idea that design has a universal value to
offer.
Alpay Er
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Istanbul Technical University
Dept. of Industrial Product Design
Taskisla, Istanbul 80191 TR
Phone : +90 212 2931310 ext. 2201
Fax : +90 212 2514895
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URL : http://www.mim.itu.edu.tr
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