Dear Jan,
Thank you for your note. I'll look forward to your response when you
get back from break.
To be clear about this, I think that Conall's post referred to
engineering design AND to what you are calling design by designers.
In design methods, we talk about many kinds of design process. Conall
clearly applied his discussion of value analysis to engineering and
to what some people label "soft" forms of design.
What I am curious about is what, specifically, in value analysis
leads you to question it. I wasn't asking about different methods or
goals. I know there are different methods and goals. You specifically
question the method known as value analysis. I am hoping to learn why.
Yours,
Ken
--
Jan Coker writes:
I will be happy to respond when I am back from break but as it is it
is 5:00 the day before I am leaving for a week and a half. Let me
just say that the collaboration of designers and engineers doesn't
mean they use the same methods and what may result in what an
engineer considers a engineering-design innovation and what a
designer considers a design innovation may differ not only in degrees
but in substance, and methodology or approach has a significant
impact on what is possible.
--
--
Ken Friedman, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Leadership and Strategic Design
Department of Leadership and Organization
Norwegian School of Management
Visiting Professor
Advanced Research Institute
School of Art and Design
Staffordshire University
|