Dear Colleagues,
I would like to clarify parts of my text below (from my previous mail), and in particular -- my library memories. I realized that the way the text is written, people might assume that this had happened recently. I apologize for missing to specify the time period and my social status at that time.
These memories about meetings, urban transportation, and library routines date back to the 1970s when I was a graduate student and a dissertator. This had happened decades before I got academic positions. At that time and in that culture, I have interacted with other people as a peer student or dissertator -- on equal basis. Please read my memories in that context. Probably the nostalgic attitude produced by these memories overwhelmed me and I start thinking like I did in my student years. Certain words should not have been used because today they might be construed much differently than in past times. The word choice came from this journey back in time. I hope that you will understand this situation and no one will feel offended.
Thank you very much,
Lubomir
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From: Lubomir Savov Popov
Sent: Sunday, December 10, 2017 3:37 PM
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Subject: RE: Horst Rittel -- Articles and reprints in .pdf format
Thank you Ken! This is a good example of exchanging e-files over the ocean, living in a virtual community, and enjoying the camaraderie of our colleagues.
In the old times, with the printed media, we had to schedule a meeting. Maybe in the National or other large research library, or at a seminar ground. We will have to travel to the meeting place. When we go there for a primary function, this doesn't add much extra time, but in that case we will meet after two three days, when both of us attend the same event. Otherwise, I have to make a roundtrip of an hour and a half with the city transit or a car. On top of all, after I take the prints, I have to make photocopies for me and return the prints. Well, the whole operation will take me at least 6 hours plus travel and copy expenses. Well, the emotions were great: Having the whole set of necessary papers toghether. No need to roam through several libraries to find the journals and then to wait in line at the library copier (mandatory copy work on library grounds). Saving many hours of valuable time.
On the other hand, while searching through the library stacks and waiting for copy work I might make a couple of acquaintances and make a date with a pretty chick --things that I am missing now. Well, I forgot about the library café where the most important work was done--in a discussion on Mario Bunge, getting the phone numbers of several chicks under the pretext to share some prints. Now we miss these pretexts that gave us so many opportunities for human contacts. However, I am not sure this is the most important function of the library (building).
Best wishes,
Lubomir
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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 Ken Friedman
Sent: Sunday, December 10, 2017 4:17 AM
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Subject: Horst Rittel -- Articles and reprints in .pdf format
Dear Colleagues,
A friend recently requested that I provide her with copies of eleven of Horst Rittel’s articles and papers. Some of these papers are direct from journals. Others are Rittel’s working papers from the University of California at Berkeley Institute of Urban and Regional Development. I have posted these in .pdf format to WeTransfer. These will be available through Friday, December 15. You can download them at:
https://we.tl/coLTHiplJY
The eleven articles and reprints are:
Kunz & Rittel 1970 Issues as Elements of Information Systems WP131 Rittel & Noble 1989 Issue-Based Information Systems for Design WP492 Rittel & Webber 1973 Dilemmas in a General Theory of Planning Rittel 1966 Instrumental Knowledge in Politics WP116 Rittel 1966 Reflections of the Scientific and Political Significance of Decision Theory WP115
Rittel 1966 Some Principles for the Design of an Educational System for DesignRP54 Rittel 1972 On the Planning Crisis Systems Analysis of the 'First and Second Generations’ BØ RP107 Rittel 1972 On the Planning Crisis RP86 Rittel 1972 Structure and Usefulness of Planning Information SystemsBØ RP108 Rittel 1980 APIS A Concept for an Argumentative Planning Information System WP324
Rittel 1988 The Reasoning of Designers .pdf
Yours,
Ken
Ken Friedman | 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 ||| Email [log in to unmask] | Academia http://swinburne.academia.edu/KenFriedman | D&I http://tjdi.tongji.edu.cn
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