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L.Galli(2011-2013)

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Design(Progetto)

Designing(Progettazione)

What is designing?

(John Chris Jones opening question in Design Methods, 1970-1992)

see J.C.Jones, Design Methods, Wiley 1970-1992

A goal-directed problem-solving activity

Bruce Archer 1965

Quoted by John Chris Jones, Design Methods, Wiley 1970-1992

A plan for arranging elements in such a way as to best accomplish a particular purpose

Charles Eames 1972

see J. & M. Neuhart, Eames Design. The work of the office of Charles and Ray Eames, Abrams 1989

Changing existing situations into preferred ones

Herbert SimonThe Sciences of the Artificial

1969

see H. Simon, The Sciences of the Artificial, MIT Press (1969)1996

A creative activity - it involves bringing into being something new and useful

that has not existed previously

J.B. Reswick 1965

Quoted by John Chris Jones, Design Methods, Wiley 1970-1992

The imaginative jump from present facts

to future possibilities

J.K. Page 1966

Quoted by John Chris Jones, Design Methods, Wiley 1970-1992

Design problems are “indeterminate” and wicked”

because design has no special subject matter of its own apart from what a designer conceives it to be

R.BuchananWicked Problems

in Design Thinking 1992

see Clark-Brody (ed. by), Design Studies, Berg, 2009

[Wicked problems are a] class of social system problems which are

ill-formulated, where the information is confusing, where there are many clients and decision makers with conflicting values, and where the ramifications in the whole system

are thoroughly confusing

C. West Churchman 1967

see R.Buchanan, Wicked Problems in Design Thinking, in Clark-Brody (ed. by), Design Studies, Berg, 2009

There exists a designerly way of thinking and communicating

Bruce Archer1979

Quoted by Nigel Cross, Forty Years of Design Research, Design Research Quarterly, 2007

Designing is learning - with yourself and the world

as the teacher

J.C. JonesDesign Methods for Everyone

Softopia (2001)2009

http://www.softopia.demon.co.uk/2.2/designmethodsforeveryone.html

To shape and make our environment in ways without

precedent in nature, to serve our needs and

give meaning to our lives

J.HeskettToothpicks and logos 2002

J.Heskett, Toothpicks and logos. Design in Everyday life, Oxford University Press, 2002

(...) design does not signify a class of objects that can be pinned down

like butterflies

Victor MargolinDesign History and

Design Studies 2002

see Clark-Brody (ed. by), Design Studies, Berg, 2009

How (...) can we establish a body of knowledge about

something that has no fixed identity?

V.MargolinDesign History and Design

Studies 2002

see Clark-Brody (ed. by), Design Studies, Berg, 2009

The history of design in the twentieth century

shows us that designers (...) have invented the subject matter of their profession

as they go along

V.MargolinDesign History and

Design Studies 2002see Clark-Brody (ed. by), Design Studies, Berg, 2009

Today, design is a category beyond categories

Peter LunenfeldThe Design Cluster 2003

see B.Laurel (ed. by), Design Research, MIT Press, 2003

The real difficulty in design is the designer!

(I remember Charles Eames saying that in a lecture)

J.C. JonesDesign Methods for Everyone

Softopia 2003

http://www.softopia.demon.co.uk/2.2/designmethodsforeveryone.html

Design is both the insanely radical and the passionately incremental

John MaedaGigaOM blog post 2012

http://gigaom.com/2012/10/06/design-is-both-the-insanely-radical-and-the-passionately-incremental/

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