Rosan Chow <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>Dear David,
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>You know I take you very seriously and have learned much from you over the years. I have not forgotten your lessons. The problem I face is that most people in research, development and other knowledge-intensive places, drink coffee, not tea or yuanyang (see link below). If I want to sit at the table and convince them with my ideas, then I must drink coffee besides tea. Or at least I must respect and show appreciation of coffee. Science, like coffee drinking, is a ritual. There is no way to hope that people will switch to tea overnight although tea is much healthier than coffee and here in Germany you can get the best kind of tea. I hope one day design research as a whole is delivering so good work that we are in the position to demand the scientists to show us their relevance to design. But in many areas, we are not there yet. Or?
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>and this is another reason why I turn to science: very practical, not a change of heart.
>Besides, I am genuinely interested in trying yuanyang, and for that I must know how to make good coffee.
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>Rosan
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>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuanyang_(drink)
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>On the question of science and design, imho, as strong believer and advocate of evidence-based design, I take the view that the onus is on scientists to demonstrate their relevance to design, not for designers to roll over in the face of science. In my own little patch, science has yet to demonstrate more than a marginal relevance.
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>David
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