I'm answering this personally, off line, since it seems to be based
on a misunderstanding.
Hence an apparent silence.
Ranulph
On 8 Jul 2008, at 18:08, Terence Love wrote:
> Hi Ranulph,
>
> I'm aware that some designers I know use design techniques that
> reuse in
> their personal design practice the skills they developed in the
> realm of
> conversation with others. As you say, these skills enable people
> who wish to
> design that way to have a 'conversation with the self' with short -
> term
> memory being externalized into sketches.
>
> I don't design that way nor do many others I suspect.
>
> By observation, when designing most of us apply and reuse skills
> developed
> in other realms.
>
> Conversation isn't exclusive in this regard, although it may be
> common in
> those designers who use words a lot?
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Best,
>
> Terry
>
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> Ranulph
> Glanville
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> Subject: Re: design as discourse
>
> I have argued, following the cybernetician Gordon Pask, that at the
> heart of the act of designing is an action that may be thought of as
> a conversation with the self via paper and pencil. This is elaborated
> in the recent volume I edited of Kybernetes on Cybernetics and Design
> (vol 36, nos 9 and 10, 2007). Copies of this volume have been sent to
> several people on the list.
>
> See Glanville, R (2007), Try again. Fail again. Fail better: the
> cybernetics in design and the
> design in cybernetics, Kybernetes vol 36 not 9 and 10.
>
> Of course, this sort of conversation (clearly some variety of
> discourse, although perhaps in a manner that adds to those being used
> in the current discussion) is non-verbal.
>
> Ranulph
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