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From: Charles Burnette <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Oct 28, 2003 12:42 PM
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Subject: Re: The value triangle
Chuck wrote: Most designer's aren't brands and aren't
supported by a marketer like Target.
The transfer of control interfaces between devices is
another matter made possible through ubiquitous
computing software (Jini,XML, etc.) and certainly
could enable monitoring of use. The basic question's
are still who owns what is used and/or the services it
affords?
Alan writes: This is why I pointed directly to web management systems such as MT. It points directly at alternate social structures or possibly earlier social structures where the "community" of use is established and etiquette among the community members places a particular type of value on trading code or paying or donating directly to the designer for use. The person who creates the tool is valued more than or as much as the tool itself. If I go to Target and by a toaster oven that looks like the Portland building I simultaneously like the product while thinking blistering thoughts about Michael Graves and the Target Corporation. I think this may happen because of a perceived intimacy between production and exchange of designed elements in the digital realm while there is a disconnect between designer, production, and sale in the second. How could the product take on the former kind of relationship wherein the designer is valued as the product is valued? Would the designer also have to function as craftsman or can a new culture of consumption be created whereby the designer is valued while products are produced and distributed by an intermediary that maintains its own identity?
Best,
Alan
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