Dear Klaus,
it is tempting to exchange the term "design" in your answer with
"art." ;)
But as art is not problem-solving it works only half-way through.
Perhaps it is a question of culture to question and challenge what
others take for granted?
A western tradition rooted in the Enlightenment?
Believing that society develops towards the better, ameliorating
circumstances?
(I regret posting much too seldom, but i am currently writing up my
thesis and usually 300+ posts (6 weeks) behind and out of sync.)
Greetings from Sheffield,
Michael
On 22 Feb 02006, at 16:59, Klaus Krippendorff wrote:
> although your (chris') question is addressed to rosan, i like to
> give you my
> answer:
>
>
> design always needs to question and challenge what others take for
> granted,
> whether this is western or eastern discourse, or whether it concerns
> knowledge couched in scientific or everyday terms.
>
>
> i wouldn't consider the need of challenging existing conception in
> terms of
> balance, but on second thought, proceeding without that challenge
> ends up
> extremist, which could be considered a kind of imbalance.
>
>
> my concern with the rationalist preconception of design as problem
> solving
> (A) is that it confines design to given (assigned or adopted)
> problems and
> does not go outside that box. oftentimes this is okay. but i
> would not
> want to see its commonness generalized and dominating the
> conception of
> design
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: PhD-Design - This list is for discussion of PhD studies and
> related research in Design [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf
> Of Christopher Kueh
> Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2006 7:39 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: A Spanner in the works
>
>
>
>
> HI Rosan,
>
>
> You said: 'the world is in need of a counter-discourse to balance, not
> replace, the
> dominating western discourse'.
>
>
> Can you explain more on 'counter-discourse' and 'western
> discourse'? If to
> balance western-discourse, what of it that we are to balance? Is
> there also
> such thing as 'estern discourse'?
>
>
> Sorry if these were already being explained in the earlier posts.
> Have not
> been reading in details on the recent posts as I'm completing my
> own PhD
> thesis :)
>
>
> Thanks!
>
>
> -Chris
>
>
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