Dear Terry,
Your latest post on “definitions” fits together with your earlier comment on the New York Times article by Robert Frodeman and Adam Briggle. Every time you post, you assure us that if only we will begin to define design as a noun, this will straighten out some of the major theoretical difficulties in our field.
This begins to remind me of Cato the Elder. No matter what the topic of any debate in the Roman Senate, Cato ended every speech on every topic with the phrase, “Delenda est Cartago!” — “Carthage must be destroyed.”
No matter what the issue, it seems that you propose a “noun version of the definition of design” as the foundation of a major new design theory that will lead to “usable concepts and theories that are testable and align with the theories of other disciplines.”
As you note, “the alternative is to do the hard work and define practically usable concepts and theories.” Then you’ve got to publish them. So far, you haven’t even presented the actual critique of the two specifically sourced definitions that I offered you in response to your request. I gave you two definitions. Rather than carefully and explicitly demonstrate why they did not function effectively, you simply said, “Nope.” Then you said, “Got to add them to the list.” Except, as you admitted earlier, there is no list.
For the reasons I stated earlier, I prefer not to rejoin this debate. What might lure me back would be for you to post the answer you offered if I were to provide the definitions. I provided Simon and Merriam-Webster, with full sources and proper referencing.
Of course, there is still the issue of publishing the theoretical breakthroughs that follow if only we will define design as a noun. But publishing the theories you claim will follow takes work.
Cato the Elder proclaimed, “Carthage must be destroyed.”
Terry Love wrote, “The alternative is to do the hard work …”
Yours,
Ken
Ken Friedman, PhD, DSc (hc), FDRS | Editor-in-Chief | 设计 She Ji. The Journal of Design, Economics, and Innovation | Published by Tongji University in Cooperation with Elsevier | 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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Terry Love wrote:
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The alternative is to do the hard work and define practically usable concepts and theories that are testable and align with the theories of other disciplines.
As an aside and hint, as I've written before... the noun version of the definition of design does this for design researchers… .
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