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Designers = Meta-epistemologists?
The paper discusses the future of design, emphasizing the role of designers as reflective practitioners who can foster positive growth and address contemporary challenges. It proposes a model of design as an ecological process that evolves through iteration, collaboration, and ethical considerations, aiming for a more harmonious relationship between designers, society, and the environment. The authors advocate for a shift towards eudemonic design practices that prioritize collective well-being and sustainability.
Designers = Meta-epistemologists?
- 1. 22nd October 2009 Design⎢Rigor& Relevance IASDR conference Designers = Meta-epistemologists? Questions of practicing design in the spaces of beyond-knowledge and the not-yet. Ayako Fukuuchi, Hyaesook Yang & Jordan Dalladay-Simpson Goldsmiths, University of London, UK
- 2. Contents Introduction The self-reflective designer? Prospect-offeringwithin the design professions? Design process as ecological growth? Shifts in the values of the design professions? An ethics of design? Toward a common future? Beyond-knowledge and future praxis? Eudemonic future-action?
- 3. Introduction The purpose ofthis paper To propose and ask questions about the future of our discipline. Encourage a state of positive growth through the paper. We believe that designers can play a more positive role in today’s world. We do not propose this paper as a truth-claim but as an example of questions and issues we believe important to finding and manifesting a currently unthinkable, but possible and preferable future for both our industry and our world.
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- 6. Recursive iteration This isbecause any situated experience from an activity in flux is itself relational to its surroundings.
- 7. Personal questions ofprofessional practice… “ So, I’ve learn a designer’s role through whole my surrounding and the endless loop. Yes, I was a designer. I am a designer and may be I will be a designer in the future… I might know it all but what I’ve done with this and what I have to do with this? ”( Hyaesook Yang, 2009)
- 8. Prospect-offering within thedesign professions?
- 9. on average 68bikes were stolen in London every day in 2007/08 www.designcouncil.org.uk
- 10. Bike Lock: Outof Reach, Out of Harm, Dominic Hargreaves Problem-solving > Biking schemes such as Bycyklen in Copenhagen, velib in Paris and bicing in Barcelona possibility-finding > prospect-offering
- 11. Synergy 1 WIN WIN designer environment Sy Synergy 3 ne rg y gy er n Sy6 5 Synergy 4 Synergy 2 WIN WIN client society Wood (2007) calls the win-win-win-win scenario in which the client, society, environment and designer are all in balance
- 12. Design process asecological growth?
- 13. A design processmodel: seeding, evolutionary growth, and reseeding. change through use seeding thing evolved thing reseeding thing Reflection towards reseeding Design process The process model based on The Seeding, Evolutionary Growth, and Reseeding (SER) Process Model,1994 (c., L3D, University of Colorado). Giaccardi, E. (2005), Metadesign as an Emergent Design Culture, p.11
- 14. A design processmodel: seeding, evolutionary growth, and reseeding.
- 15. the immediate needof ‘metadesign’ “extensive, holistic, consensual, ethical, eco-mimetic practice of design” Wood (2007) - multidisciplinary design approaches will be very useful to maximise the seeding practice. - knowledge and actions of the other expertises will be essential for the designers’ role.
- 16. Shifts in thevalues of the design professions?
- 17. We are surroundedby design artifacts, from products to lifestyles “ design has placed itself more and more at the direct service of private interest. ”Clive Dilnot (2008)
- 18. Balancing sense andsensibility : To negotiate double-edges factors into practice
- 19. using artifice Flux coefficient frompast-state society towards future-state society current-state society Iterative binding designing artifice possible socio-cultural evolutionary path Design and use of artifice diagram – The remaking of socio-cultural values All in all, the design process is never complete and alters its own further action by manifesting unpredictable factors. To make it simple, a design can be a reflection of the world manifested through a space of ‘not-yet’.
- 20. An ethics ofdesign?
- 21. “To design isno longer to increase the stability of the manmade world: it is to alter, for good or ill, things that determine the course of its development.” John Chris Jones (1970)
- 22. Design effects larger contextsthan it was originally configured for
- 23. “ Defuturing ”Tony Fry (1999) actions of sustaining the unsustainable literally individual actions against a collective future.
- 24. “ Futuring ”Tony Fry (2009) corrective and redirective action towards the Sustainment, specifically aiming towards creating a more eudemonic future.
- 25. Need a world? paradigm-shif tto sustain a future for our Sustainability’? ‘
- 26. Towards a commonfuture?
- 27. COMMON ? Single voiceof ‘I’ moving to an adjacent ‘we’.
- 28. Languaging “Language is a mannerof living together in a flow of consensual coordination of coordinations of consensual behaviors, and it is as such a domain of coordinations of coordinations of doings. So, all that we human beings do we do it in language.” Matuarana (1997) Need to langauge!!!
- 29. Co-authoring as aprocess for building consensus through ‘languaging’ Julia Lockheart Writing PAD Project Director Writing PAD Website:www.writing-pad.ac.uk
- 30. Beyond-knowledge and futurepraxis?
- 31. ➜ Design-languaging is using elementsof a language as a specific design tool for orienting oneself in a space of thinking that is yet-to-be grounded, or yet to exist.
- 32. Apoietic to stand fora pure abstract, a concept or idea that is yet to be made and continually remade. Apoietic things are implicit when dealing with activities of bringing about the not-yet
- 33. Purposing is to design(a) purpose rather than to design artifacts
- 34. Wisdoming is whena virtuous design process or praxis is folded back upon itself, shaping other practices around it both within and beyond it’s
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- 36. ‘ eudemonia ’ achoice to act for and with good-spirit, with the presumption that such actions will bring about both a future happiness and will-to-happiness.
- 37. Therefore… we should beencouraging designs practitioners to reflect on their knowledge-action, and hopefully allow them to identify how their values are reflected and brought-about through their design practice. Through this we can open the door to prudent design, the designer as the virtuous agent of eudemonic change. With
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- 39. Thank you. Ayako Fukuuchi,Hyaesook Yang & Jordan Dalladay-Simpson Goldsmiths, University of London, UK [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]