Filippo,
The idea of expertise is an attractive one, but there is historical evidence
of innovation being driven by those just on the transition point into the
context of expertise. For example, Leo Baekeland, who was certainly not
renowned as an expert on synthetic resins, though he had been a
photographics chemist.
After all, Saussure was (strictly speaking) a linguist lecturing on
Sanskrit, not a semiotician ;^)
Cheers,
Adam
On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 1:41 AM, Filippo A. Salustri <[log in to unmask]>wrote:
> Jeremy et al,
>
> "Exclusionist" is not how I saw Terry's post. I didn't get the sense he
> was
> trying to exclude any theory from its applicability in design. I got the
> sense that he was trying to describe one way to attribute some theories but
> not others to "design."
>
> I like Terry's idea. For me, it's about responsibility/accountability.
> Take a semiotic theory. I'm perfectly happy to see a semiotic theory
> *applied* in design practise, research, or teaching. But I would worry
> about a semiotic theory that wasn't *developed* by a semioticist. Why?
> Because the semioticist is the expert and the designer/design-researcher
> is
> not (necessarily - there are of course exceptions).
>
> It's like the difference between the pure & applied sciences. In
> engineering we think of thermodynamics as an applied science and physics as
> a pure science. Someone working in thermodynamics obviously *uses*
> theories
> of physics, but will stick to develop only thermodynamic theories (for the
> most part). Of course there will occasionally be bleed-over, and this will
> usually be published jointly by, say, a thermodynamicist and a physicist.
>
> I think this is quite natural, especially as the amount of knowledge
> available in any one domain continues to increase. Indeed, I see it as the
> converse of exclusionism. Rather than telling others they can't
> participate, I see it as "allowing" designerly folks to get all up in it
> without being "forced" to work more broadly in disciplines that might not
> inspire them as much.
>
> Cheers.
> Fil
>
> On 19 February 2011 09:24, jeremy hunsinger <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > I'd argue against this exclusionist construction of what is and what is
> not
> > a design theory.
> >
> > here is how i'd design it... If a designer uses a theory, and thinks
> about
> > its use in some reflexive manner, then that is part of 'design theory'.
> I
> > see the pluralist inclusionist strategy as far more profitable in the
> end.
> > I mean think about ... 'is calculous a method and theory in the
> production
> > of literature'... some people would say no, and I'd say yes, for a small
> > subset of literature. Similarly is the aesthetic choices of Norwegian
> Ice
> > carvers a design theory... well... yes, it could be, and there is no
> reason
> > why it couldn't contribute in that area.
> >
> > now what should be 'taught' as 'design theory' is quite different than
> the
> > pluralist inclusionist agenda allows... but... what is 'learned' as
> 'design
> > theory' should really be inclusionist and pluralist i think.
> >
>
>
>
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