Out of focus - The limits of a borderline profession
Hopf, Andreas LU ; Motte, Damien LU
and Nordin, Axel
LU
(2010)
25th Cumulus Conference 25/10
p.9-9
- Abstract
- The elusive chimaera “design” has been, in turn, an idea, a plan, a purpose, a sketch, a process, the result of a process, the core of a profession and the core of emerging professions… As such, the concept of what design is, will remain contradictory and resist to being ever determined in the absolute: the limitations of design are those that are imposed by those who define them. On an abstract level, there is no fear and there are no boundaries; but then, stretching the term to verge on the all-encompassing for a political agenda, the design profession and its research community is already instrumental for disentitling it of relevance: positioning design as the panacea for all problems afflicting the world. If design and design research... (More)
- The elusive chimaera “design” has been, in turn, an idea, a plan, a purpose, a sketch, a process, the result of a process, the core of a profession and the core of emerging professions… As such, the concept of what design is, will remain contradictory and resist to being ever determined in the absolute: the limitations of design are those that are imposed by those who define them. On an abstract level, there is no fear and there are no boundaries; but then, stretching the term to verge on the all-encompassing for a political agenda, the design profession and its research community is already instrumental for disentitling it of relevance: positioning design as the panacea for all problems afflicting the world. If design and design research will ever mature, the reflections on it will have to be put into a context: if there can ever be a design science – as long as it remains a science of the artificial, linked to human activity – it will be irredeemably linked to a field of application. Otherwise, it will lead to cursory outcomes of shallow depth, promoting a process of mere scientification and aggrandisation. (Less)
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- author
- Hopf, Andreas
LU
; Motte, Damien
LU
and Nordin, Axel
LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2010
- type
- Contribution to conference
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- industrial design, industridesign, machine design, maskinkonstruktion
- pages
- 1 pages
- conference name
- 25th Cumulus Conference 25/10
- conference location
- Genk, Belgium
- conference dates
- 2010-06-26 - 2010-06-29
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- 44fc0eb6-b8eb-4399-9c5a-22c5d3cf6f03 (old id 3052127)
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title = {{Out of focus - The limits of a borderline profession}},
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