Dear Johann and others,
in the German-speaking debate regarding design
politics I proposed the mission statement: "Im
Bett zart - gegen Bullen hart", which was a
slogan in the students´ movement of the late
1960s.
Maybe one can translate it as: "tender in bed - tough against cops".
In applying this to the design context I wanted
to say: Internally, let us admit the fuzziness,
the conceptual weaknesses, the slow progess, etc.
Let us adopt the pluralism, the (still?) missing
foundations. But, externally, facing funding
agencies and university structures, let us act AS
IF we were an established discipline. Let us
PRETEND to have an own paradigm of knowing /
knowledge production, etc.
Just a remark,
have a nice day,
Jonas
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At 21:37 Uhr +0200 29.09.2007, Johann van der Merwe wrote:
>Harold & List
>There is no such thing as a "design discipline" - we are in the unique
>position of "not-owning" a groundless field of knowledge (Wolfgang
>Jonas) = which potentially means we can - if only temporarily and for a
>specific project - have access to any other discipline (or more
>accurately, a basket of disciplines).
>We have no discipline in the old-fashioned sense since "we" do not exist
>without the other - in design's case without the social structuration
>that is constantly changing ... try to pin that down!
>The closest to a "disciline" we should come is that of the bricoleur -
>we are / should be craftsmen using everything that is at & to hand.
>Johann
>PS: both Maritain aand Gadamer were against foundationalism / method in
>the sense of "restriction" = this is what Bruno Latour would call
>letting non-human actors determine who we are, because we begin to
>imagine a discipline as an "it" that can provide us with answers (where
>there are none)
>'n Klip in die bos ...
>
>
>
>>>> Harold Nelson <[log in to unmask]> 09/29/07 8:36 PM >>>
>Dear Jacques et al
>
>I am asked on occasion what academics mean when they use the term
>'discipline' (i.e. disciplinary, interdisciplinary,
>multidisciplinary, non-disciplinary etc.) . What are the working
>definitions being used in this case?
>
>Regards
>
>Harold Nelson
>
>
>On Sep 29, 2007, at 6:48 AM, Jacques Giard wrote:
>
>> Christ, John, and list members,
>>
>> On this same topic of disciplines, I was director of the School of
>> Design at
>> Arizona State University until very recently. The school was
>> typical of many
>> multidisciplinary settings.
>>
>
>
>
>Harold G. Nelson, Ph.D.
>www.haroldnelson.com
>President; Advanced Design Institute
>www.advanceddesign.org
>Trustee & Past-President; International Society for Systems Science
>www.isss.org
>Affiliated faculty, M. Eng., U. Wash.
>http://www.me.washington.edu/people/faculty/hgnelson/
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