Dear colleagues:
I have a question for the list. Why is so much research attention
given to the process of design and so little to its results - the
products that are the outcomes of designing, their value and social
consequences. It seems to me that one result of design research
should be to serve as a critical lens for evaluating the results of
designing. Of course, research into sustainable products is a
promising direction but there are so many more things that are
designed about which we don't know much. What about the way that new
digital products like cell phones and ipods are changing
socialization values. What about the changing ideas about the design
of public space.We seem to leave all those and other questions
related to the social consequences of designing to other disciplines.
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Victor Margolin
Professor Emeritus of Design History
Department of Art History
University of Illinois at Chicago
935 W. Harrison St.
Chicago, IL 60607-7039
Tel. 1-312-583-0608
Fax 1-312-413-2460
website: www.uic.edu/~victor
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