Dear All,
This is a modest request to make the list more useful and readable. As I
wrote in my footnote on Richard Sennett, the thread on educating for
creativity seems to have suggested two sets of issues that move into other
realms that educating. One realm involves the nature of the profession or
craft of design. The other involves an abstract set of questions about
epistemology.
The JISCMAIL Listserv software provides a good way to track threads by using
subject headers. It also allows us to organize and find earlier and later
contributions to a thread, jumping back and forth to prior and next post by
author, by subject, or by date and time.
Identifying the subject by changing the header when appropriate makes the
list more usable. That's why I headed by response to Robert as a note on
Richard Sennett.
While Terry's long post raises interesting issues, the note does not address
educating for creativity. Instead, he delves deeply into a series f issues
that I'd label epistemology -- perhaps one could find other labels, but the
note is not about educating for creativity.
One of the things that makes this list so interesting is the way that we've
been ablt to build up interesting dialogues in a fairly robust community
over the eleven or so years since Keith Russell and David Durling founded
the list after the Columbus, Ohio conference on Doctoral Education in Design.
In the years since, we've built a marvelous archive of posts, commentary,
and interaction.
Such small but helpful practices as attention to subject headers and care in
trimming reply tails make on-going threads more readable while make the
archive easier to manage and use.
May I offer a plea for consideration in identifying the subject of a post? A
response to an on-going thread should probably preserve the subject header.
If a post explores a divergent topic or opens a deep exploration of a
subsidiary or minor topic, it probably deserves a subject header of its own.
Thanks.
Ken
Ken Friedman, PhD, DSc (hc), FDRS
Professor
Dean
Swinburne Design
Swinburne University of Technology
Melbourne, Australia
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