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Design Studies / Research quotes
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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