terry,
i am saying you can't legislate or deduce from abstract definitions whether
someone is a designer or not. this is possible only when the world is fixed
and perfectly institutionalized. to me it is a question of professing to be
one and finding enough people who accept your profession, e.g. by entrusting
you with a design job.
i am also saying that the activity of inventing futures to live in,
including improving existing conditions, is a pretty general human activity.
we do it all the time in small and large ways, without necessarily calling
us designers when we do. the sentence i just wrote is an invention. people
who create new sentences more likely call each other writers, not designers.
klaus
-----Original Message-----
From: Terence Love [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Monday, September 21, 2009 11:58 PM
To: Klaus Krippendorff; [log in to unmask]
Subject: RE: On design - again?
Hi Klaus,
I'm still not clear on what you are saying. Your post seems to contradict
some of your earlier comments.
Are you saying the scope of 'professional designers' in your email includes
engineering designers, software designers, mathematical configuration
designers and all those kinds of professional designers that call themselves
by the name 'designer' that are outside the fields covered by Art and Design
design schools?
Cheers,
Terry
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Klaus wrote:
members of a profession profess to belong to a community that is marked by
some - however loose but nevertheless satisfactory - agreement about what
they profess to. when you say you are a designer, and other professed
designers don't object to that, you are one.
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