yes,
david,
it indeed is nit picking.
sure information does not inform by anything on its own. it is someone
capable of reading and understanding something as backing a claim or design
and communicating it compellingly to someone who cares.
klaus
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Subject: Re: Evidence-Based Design
On 29/10/2008, at 7:33 AM, Klaus Krippendorff wrote:
> the notion of evidence disconnects what the evidence is for (a
> design) and
> for whom this is so (their stakeholders) as if evidence were something
> independent of human beings
In and of itself 'the notion of evidence' neither disconnects nor connects.
Only people do things like connecting or disconnecting. To suggest otherwise
is to suggest that a 'notion' is 'something independent of human beings'
with the capacity to do things in the world.
But this is probably nit picking.
The point is, as I said, to
> .provide evidence of an agreed and acceptable outcome.
In this context someone is doing the 'providing' and someone has to decide
that it is evidence (or whatever we call it) of something 'acceptable'.
This is highly contextualised judgement with nothing independent of human
beings.
Having said that, I would not want to push the point as any kind of absolute
requirement for all kinds of design. So much design is ritual and display,
where questions of outcome are either not important or irrelevant.
David
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