Hi Teena,
You offer some good ideas. I agree.
Glenn
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>Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2008 21:57:06 +1000
>From: teena clerke <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: Working across multiple design
sectors (was A simple definition of 'Design'?)
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>Hi Glenn,
>
>I am a little puzzled, perhaps you have mistaken my post? I
do not
>suggest that 'the problem solving literature ha[s] an
exclusive or
>restrictive emphasis on negative aspects'. I do suggest
that design
>might also exist within/emerge from experiences such as
that which I
>described as serendipity in my story of the housewife from
Warren.
>Interpreting your post, I might label this experience
as 'eustress'
>(pleasurable). However, I argue that by describing the
design space
>as problem-solving might position it within the binary
of 'either-or'
>(negative distress or positive eustress) that you explained
from your
>reading of the literature, and this works to limit the
possible ways
>in which what happens (what gets experienced) might be
conceptualised
>as design. We each have our own stories for this I suspect.
>
>teena
>
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Glenn E. Snelbecker, Ph.D., Professor, Temple University
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