Fil,
There may be a connection to Alexander's description of unsell-conscious
design but that certainly was not my intention. Alexander was connecting
the recognition of misfits to the design activity. Perhaps Francois'
comments are closer to what Alexander was saying.
As for me, the use of the Balinese saying (which I fully recognize is a
kind of cliché and most likely without evidence to support it) is my way
of stating that perhaps we need to look at what creates cohesion rather
than what divides us. This type of division or silo mentality, which can
occur when sub-dividing an activity such as design, has been both the
strength and the weakness of the modern university, for example.
Typically, academic units, which should be collaborating, are not because
of walls that have been created and, worse, maintained. This same kind of
territorial mentality almost killed the American auto industry in the
1970s and 1980s at a time when marketing did not talk to engineering who,
in turn, did not talk to design, and so on.
From my perspective, it appears that we could easily lose the goal of
designing if we allow ourselves to be distracted by the many ways that
design can be sub-divided. Returning to our Balinese craftsman, isn't one
goal of designing to do things as well as possible? If so, then I do not
see how dividing design into an infinite number of bits helps.
Jacques
On 6/14/12 5:20 PM, "Filippo A. Salustri" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>Is this not somewhere near what Alexander called self-conscious and
>unself-conscious design?
>/fas
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>On 14 June 2012 11:49, Francois Nsenga <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> If the Balinese craftsperson and all the members of the commons
>> specializing in artifacts planning and make were left alone with their
>> brotherly ideology and boundless communal ways of life, as always they
>> would definitely keep striving "to do as well as possible"; i.e. with
>> dedication, rigor, and care for their respective communities.
>>
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