One morning, I woke up and realized …. wait a minute, we can’t
(we can but we shouldn’t) observe how designers act (design) and
to suggest it is how it IS designers act (design) and thus to base on
this observation to develop theory to guide educational program
which is one of the most common ‘applications’ because how
designers act (design) is invented by people (including designers)
and which means it is not going to stay the same, it is going to
change when the world is changing, so whatever we observe
designer s do today, tomorrow is history, not theory, not really.
Oh… if all the observations are histories
then we should treat them like histories
that help us to anticipate
rather than to expect them to help us to predict .
and we definitely should not use them as a guide or a goal to
develop educational program for the future, although histories can inform us.
mmm, That means we should talk about these observations in history terms…. mmm….
I don’t know much about historical inquiry …. why did I learn social scientific
methods but not also historic research methods??? … mmm
(rosan’s mind was drifting….)
hello rosan, but only theories bring in something new in research ….
so what do we do… i don’t know…
oh I do know…. there are theories by speculation, commonly known as philosophy. …
(rosan’s mind drifted somewhere else)
well I suppose theories of designing can be invented, prototyped, tested and observed,
but then it will become history again… oh dear.
better send a note to the phd-design discussion list.
Some people might have thought about these things.
rosan
p.s. jonas: vielen dank
> One morning, I woke up and realized … to be continued.
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> Rosan
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