Dear Hiral,
Here is another excellent description in the PhD-Design discussion of the important interaction between designers and makers - in this case in the theatre world.
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> On 13 Feb 2017, at 07:03, Johann van der Merwe <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Fernando, Keith
>
> Regarding this interesting thread, especially the aspect of mindfulness /
> attentiveness, the following:
>
> Not for the first time I have come across a passage, when idly reading,
> that speaks to matters design. This one (TLS, August 2014) is from a review
> of *Caspar Neher: Brecht’s designer*, and concerns the positive effects of
> doubt …
>
>
> “Brecht – perhaps surprisingly for one so certain of his goals – frequently
> spoke up for doubt as a guiding principle. And he linked principle to
> practice: doubt, the argument ran, was creative because it meant being
> alert to alternatives; alternatives emerged through discussion; discussion
> must be at the heart of theatre-work. In other words, a curious mixture of
> certainty about goals and uncertainty about methods produced a brand of
> theatre which was genuinely a collaborative affair, and the collaboration –
> between author, co-producer, composer, actors, technicians – was often so
> interactive that it is difficult to untangle Brecht’s own particular
> efforts, let alone the efforts of those with whom he worked.”
>
>
> This paragraph demonstrates how many other professions use ‘design’
> principles, and is also an example of Actor-Network Theory (“part of my
> research argument is that we cannot investigate the human relationship
> with/within design without looking closely at a socio-technical
> interrelationship as well, and Actor-Network Theory regards human and
> non-human [the technical, or all designed artefacts] roles as mutually
> formative”).
>
>
> The only thing that I would dispute is the certainty of a goal, which
> should be replaced with (from my thesis):
>
> “Design is not, initially, about finding answers or solutions, but about
> observing the system that needs design intervention, and in this way design
> becomes primarily an investigative system to redefine the problem space,
> for, as John Chris Jones (1988: 224) stated, ‘the “right” requirements are
> in principle unknowable by users, customers, or designers at the start’.
> Observing the system also means redefining the so-called problem, for not
> only is it wrong to assume the stable nature of the problem requirements,
> but pre-empting the solution in this way means nothing much will be learned
> from the whole process, and hence very little innovation becomes possible.
> We all work with what most people would either call (professional)
> intuition, “know-how” or tacit knowledge, the knowledge base we have built
> up over the course of a design career. Paradoxically, this working method
> can be the worst barrier to product innovation, because ‘At the start one’s
> intuition is likely to be wrong, informed by what *is*, but not by what is
> to be conjured into existence’ (Jones, 1984:136)”.
> Johann
>
>
> --
> Dr. Johann van der Merwe
> Independent Design Researcher
>
>
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