Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
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@urbnscl Curious if you know of John Chris Jones, author of 'Design Methods' and the first Professor of Design at The Open University? (wiki) "jcj's later work takes on a much more intuitionistic, poetic, artistic approach to the same issues." - Jonathan Moberly world3.scribble.com/world3/meme1/phone/books/index.html

"I perceive now that what I call design methods, 1970 and 1980 versions, cannot progress much further without confronting a social impasse. Specialisation, that is the name of it. We have surely to pass through or round or to melt this icefield now that technologies are becoming so pervasive and so dangerous and industrial it seems to have gone wrong. Was it ever right? ...but I don't quite believe this argument. Isn't it too specialised in itself, too moralistic, and somehow divisive? ... The technologies and the social forms may be deadly but I must find a way to write this that does not put me in opposition to everyone but speaks of the whole and of the particular, of the sun and the goat, whatever that means." Design Methods, 1992 Edition "i did not realise that people would see what I write as letting go but as you elaborate the idea i see that it is indeed close to what i've been thinking and doing for a long time. i've not read any of the books you quote but i'm reminded of..
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"I perceive now that what I call design methods, 1970 and 1980 versions, cannot progress much further without confronting a social impasse. Specialisation, that is the name of it. We have surely to pass through or round or to melt this icefield now that technologies are becoming so pervasive and so dangerous and industrial it seems to have gone wrong. Was it ever right? ...but I don't quite believe this argument. Isn't it too specialised in itself, too moralistic, and somehow divisive? ... The technologies and the social forms may be deadly but I must find a way to write this that does not put me in opposition to everyone but speaks of the whole and of the particular, of the sun and the goat, whatever that means." Design Methods, 1992 Edition "i did not realise that people would see what I write as letting go but as you elaborate the idea i see that it is indeed close to what i've been thinking and doing for a long time. i've not read any of the books you quote but i'm reminded of..