Dear Ken,
Your note indicating that broder issues being involed triggered a query in
me. When designers make policies - for whom is it done - for the
Government ? for the Designer community ? for the Public ? Who actually
reads these policy ? What rate of success have they achived so far whever
they have been implemented especially in Design as a profession and as a
knowledge entity. Will be glad to learn from the successful Design policy
experiences , if any.
This is not to ignore or pull down the tremendous efforts and passions
etc that go into making them. I am trying to understand all the activity
around policy making. There is often a sudden spurt and then nothing is
heard of their success not wthstanding discussions around them on lists
and foras. Some times I wonder if we are mistaking policy documents to
wish fulfilling lists and plans some where deep inside us or are they
expressions of we designers being ignored by the decision makers in power.
Pradeep Yammiyavar FDRS.
Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati
India.
> Friends,
>
> The varieties of crucial issues involved in design policy are far broader
> than the conversation here might suggest.
>
> Economic development -- including sustainable development in a world where
> people must work and eat -- are among the issues worth considering.
>
> Without going into detail, I want to point out a very important aspect of
> design policy in the framework of seeking right livelihood for different
> kinds of contexts.
>
> In this regard, the pioneering work of Prof. M P Ranjan from India's
> National Institute of Design is a terrific case in point. Prof. Ranjan has
> been developing contemporary craft-based industries around bamboo. This
> can be considered in several frames -- economic development, innovation
> policy, or design policy.
>
> That's it for the moment, but I want to say that one cannot simply dismiss
> design policy as a potentially vital resource for human development, and
> human development is at the heart of human-centered design.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Ken
>
> Ken Friedman, PhD, DSc (hc), FDRS
> Professor
> Dean
>
> Swinburne Design
> Swinburne University of Technology
> Melbourne, Australia
>
> Telephone +61 3 9214 6755
> www.swinburne.edu.au/design
>
>
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