Observations from Planet X
I suppose that how one responds to the Design X progress report depends on
where they¹re standing. My perspective on designing and planning is very
much influenced by my years of working with citizen advisory committees
(CACs) technical advisory committees (TACs) and large citizen groups on
complex urban design and planning projects.
One finds more than a smidgeon of SEP when dealing with the interests of
landowners of widely (sometimes wildly) different world views and
persuasions. In such circumstances, wicked and humanly complex is where one
stands, where one expects to stand at the beginning, and not something that
comes up problematically to be handled. So I tend to see the Design 1234
conception that progresses to X as looking through the telescope backward.
To wit: smaller scaled artifacts from designing - services, products et al -
are circumscribed by and nested in a cultural landscape, a democratically
cultural environment.
But I am glad to see design thinking come to grapple with the cultural
complexity of qualitative difference however it gets there.
Jerry
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Jerry Diethelm
Architect - Landscape Architect
Planning & Urban Design Consultant
Prof. Emeritus of Landscape Architecture
and Community Service € University of Oregon
2652 Agate St., Eugene, OR 97403
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