Dear Stanislav and Klaus,
I think it's worth emphasising that mathematical discourse has a significant role in attempts at redesigning design.
Klaus wrote,
'what is patently obvious is that redesigning design takes place in language'
Mathematical languages are specialised for this kind of language role...
And...
'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.'
Again mathematically-based discourse of design processes, design spaces and design discourses offers the ability to go beyond spoken language...rather the mathematical is able to address the same issues as spoken language and then address more issues and in more depth. By its nature, it exposes issues that are hidden by the cultural fixations of spoken discourse. This then in itself offers the ability to go beyond conventional spoken language discourse in ' how designers talk about design, about the methods for researching and designing things and especially communicating design methods in design education.'
Also, to contribute to the redesigning design project, design research already has a substantial mathematically-based discourse and 50 years or more of published mathematically-based design research literature about improving design and redesigning design ....
Stanislav, you ask for references. One possible perspective, remembering the activity of design is also a design and is also an experiment, is the literature on optimal design of experiments (e.g. https://www.newton.ac.uk/files/seminar/20110811093010301-152804.pdf)
Best wishes,
Terence
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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.
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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