Dear Lubomir,
Thanks for your kind words concerning my post. Please let me reply with two quick thoughts.
1) I wasn’t responding to GK. Dick Buchanan speaks for himself Many of us describe the four orders of design using Dick’s terms. Some people translate them as Design 1, Design 2, Design 3, and Design 4. Using the terms is one thing. Deploying the concepts is another matter. Given the evolution of the thread, my post invited people to read Buchanan for themselves. I also pointed to earlier work in the field dating back to around 1,000 BCE. I wanted to make it clear that this field has a long history.
Those who are interested will find two of Buchanan’s key articles on my Academia.edu page, along with an excellent article by Tony Golsby-Smith. Golsby-Smith is an eminent practitioner who has worked with the four orders of design since the 1990s. The articles are:
Buchanan, Richard. 1992. “Wicked Problems in Design Thinking,” Design Issues, Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 5–21., and
Buchanan, Richard. 2001. “Design Research and the New Learning,” Design Issues, Vol. 17, No. 4, pp. 3–23.
Golsby-Smith, Tony. 1996. “Fourth Order Design: A Practical Perspective.” Design Issues, Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 5-25.
You’ll find them in the “Teaching Documents” section of my page at URL:
https://swinburne.academia.edu/KenFriedman
2) There are indeed people who work responsibly with social design, policy design, culture design, and organisation design from a foundation in rigorous research. Many such people work in the field of applied anthropology. There are comparable people who come from backgrounds in sociology, political science, and law.
Derek Miller and his colleagues at the Policy Lab do this kind of work, often within the United Nations system. So does the anthropologist Dori Tunstall and Marcio Steinberg, who has moved from the director’s role at Helsinki Design Lab to private practice at Snowcone and Haystack in Helsinki. Richard Buchanan has also done applied work in industry and government. He has moved from a design school to the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University. Sabine Junginger also works with these issues in an applied context. I’ve done the same.
Many disciplines shed light on human action and interaction in social and cultural settings. Sociology is one approach. Given the changing nature of disciplines and applications, I think there are many useful ways to move forward. One of these days, it would be interesting to find out how many different approaches there are, and to get some kind of overview of the firms and people doing this work — as well as the backgrounds and fields from which they come.
Warm regards,
Ken
Ken Friedman, PhD, DSc (hc), FDRS | Editor-in-Chief | 设计 She Ji. The Journal of Design, Economics, and Innovation | Published by Elsevier in Cooperation with Tongji University | URL: http://www.journals.elsevier.com/she-ji-the-journal-of-design-economics-and-innovation/
Chair Professor of Design Innovation Studies | College of Design and Innovation | Tongji University | Shanghai, China ||| University Distinguished Professor | Centre for Design Innovation | Swinburne University of Technology | Melbourne, Australia
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Lubomir Popov wrote:
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On a different note, Levels 3 and 4 are actually social design. I am not sure physical designers can do that. The irony is that the sociologists shy away from their social responsibilities and allow social designers to make plans about changing the World. Everything is topsy-turvy.
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