Dear Terry,
You wrote:
> Somewhere, I have a by now rather out dated list of over two hundred
> different sub-fields of the Design discipline of which the 'Art and
> Design' domains are very much a minority...
Any chance of you being able to pinpoint where this information came
from. I'd be very interested to see it and also, if possible, to get a
sense of when the shift (Art and Design domain became the minority
discipline) occurred. I am well acquainted with the history of how
design departments often ended up being placed under the art or
architecture departments and that this was a reflection of historical
attitudes, but you seem to be indicating some other motivation for the
shift.
I think it could be interesting to understand whether there have been
social-cultural influences that have contributed to this shift in
attitude to what is design or whether this shift is a phenomenon
generated only by the design and design research community.
Was this a gradual change or were there some major events, upheavals
(ww1, ww2 etc) that stimulated the change of attitude. Or rather, when
did a sub-field dub itself or was dubbed a design discipline? Or should
this point you're making be taken in the light of our current
understanding of design and be considered as a reflection of hindsight?
Maybe the question should be:
When did the focus shift to the design activity / thinking that leads
to visual representations, rather than only focusing on the visual
representation as design artifact?
Best regards,
Chris.
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On Wednesday, March 12, 2003, at 02:33 AM, Dr Terence Love wrote:
> There is a common misconception amongst designers from the "Art and
> Craft" traditions of designing that they form the main part of the
> overall design field. In fact, this is not so. Somewhere, I have a by
> now rather out dated list of over two hundred different sub-fields
> of the Design discipline of which the 'Art and Design' domains are
> very much a minority...
>
> ... I suggest to you that this is not so. I suggest that the essence
> of the human activity of designing is better seen in terms of the
> design activities that distinguish designing in all these 200 +
> domains from other more domain specific activities such as drawing or
> calculating.
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Mads Clausen Institute
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