Dear Nigel
Don ends his comment on your post with this following quote from Keith's
earlier post:
" Yes, designers should be professionals with the ethical
responsibilities doctors are supposed to have".
And the 'provocation' I perceived earlier in Don's entire essay was
precisely that we, professionals in all sub-fields of design, should debate
this "core" issue of "ethical responsibilities", which more and more is
becoming highly a pertinent concern in all our respective societies.
And yet, you say that Don's essay was not dealing with any one of those
".... major issues of the complex relationships between society, technology
and design... not an academic article and it does not connect with issues
of PhD studies and related research in design. It should be regarded as of
no significance to this discussion list"
All right! It is your view and you are entitled to it! So then, would you,
please, tell us which rather, in you opinion or in your preference, are
issues we ought to be discussing on this list?
If your proposal is endorsed by the majority of the 3000 individuals
presently subscribed to the list, and if it happens to be far away from the
perspective of exchanges that, all these many years, I thought was the
concern of this list, then even myself I'll seriously consider leaving! I
would have been on a wrong forum...and no regret at all!
François
On Sat, Jul 21, 2018 at 10:42 AM Nigel Cross <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> The article to which our attention was drawn is a slight piece of opinion
> journalism, published in a business magazine. It is a '5-minute read', as
> the magazine editors themselves tag it, for busy business people. It is not
> an academic article and it does not connect with issues of PhD studies and
> related research in design. It should be regarded as of no significance to
> this discussion list. It touches in a personalised, simplistic way on major
> issues of the complex relationships between society, technology and design,
> but those are issues that have extensive, long-standing academic, political
> and other histories and backgrounds that deserve to be treated more
> seriously than they are, and can possibly be, on this list. The article
> does not offer new insights. The discussion aound it here is another case
> of the Emperor's New Clothes. By all means give it a 5-minute read - and
> then hit Delete.
> Nigel Cross
>
>
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