Dear group,
After Terence Love's :
"This artistic use of information about phenomena is in respects different and no different from
the perhaps less abstract ability central to all designers to be able to use internalised informal representations of the visual, 'what they have seen', or mixed external perceptions 'what they have experienced',....",
it seems that design activities and design/ers use of "information" depend on the system in which the designer has decided or chosen to work. That is - if we accept the fact that design is a polysystemic field. In that case,
information would be linked to a system and there would be more than one type of information.
Relating to the type of information would therefor lead to defining "information" not only in terms of 'content' of course, but also in terms of 'use'. The questions thus being: what type on content information does a designer choose to consider and what does the designer do with the information s/he has chosen to consider? 'artistic information' is both a 'content' type of information and a 'use' type.
Warm regards,
Dr. Popowsky
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