Interesting to see this conversation emerge from such a question. I had just posted a copy of Kenneth Boulding's wonderful essay from (my guess from the affiliation of Colorado) 1967-68 on my site: http://designdialogues.com/ A perfect quote from this piece in the journal Design (250):
“I suppose what I am really suggesting is a kind of third order mutation to redesign the institutions that design the designers of the designers. This may sound ambitious, but it is, I think, the only response which is likely to deal with quiet extraordinary crises of our times.”
Boulding is known as a social economist, and a systemicist whose work in general systems theory led to proposals such as the "skeleton of science" to integrate scientific knowledge across the silos of deep disciplinary domains. I consider him an early social designer. Boulding was a leading peace activist, as was his wife Elise who is one of the founders of the US Institute of Peace in Cleveland (there are two peace institutions in Ohio, the other is in my former town of Dayton.)
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From: Klaus Krippendorff [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: February 19, 2016 1:59 AM
Subject: Re: redesigning design: references
i wrote about that in 1995: http://repository.upenn.edu/asc_papers/46
and was invited to do something similar three years later: http://repository.upenn.edu/asc_papers/227
i have also written about redesigning design in "the semantic turn; a new foundation for design."
i have been arguing for some time that design research should not be limited to doing research in support of a particular design, rather, it should also inquire into the successes and failures of design processes and evaluate the methods used to generate designs. when the results of such inquiries are applied to improve the efficiency and conceptualization of design processes, we redesign design.
what is patently obvious is that redesigning design takes place in language. what is reflexively improved in the design discourse is how designers talk about design, about the methods for researching and designing things and especially communicating design methods in design education.
klaus
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From: PhD-Design - This list is for discussion of PhD studies and related research in Design [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Stanislav Roudavski
Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2016 2:59 AM
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Subject: redesigning design: references
Dear all,
What are the key references that show, or argue, that design itself needs to be redesigned, and for the significance thereof?
Thank you,
Stanislav
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