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| Title | Reliefpfeiler - Prolegomena zu einer Entwicklung spekulativer Legenden zum Design / Tuxedo Junctions - Or: Shoot the Attitudes of Knowledge to the Moon | ||||
| Author | Ranulph Glanville | ||||
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I am delighted by the energy you show in approaching the "corrupt" ways of thinking that we still cling to. My main area of research is not design, it's second order cybernetics. In this I explore exactly these sorts of questions, and I share many of your criticisms and evaluations. For me, it is very important that we use the word design as a verb, not as a noun. And it is very important that we accept that, in producing what is new (at least to us) we cannot predict. The only account is not one that generates what we produce, but which accounts for it after the event: a post-rationalisation. (When I was an architecture student we were told that post-rationalisation was a sin, and it took me years to get beyond the idea that if you could define the problem properly, Venn diagrams would solve it (as a result of which I never studied anything to do with architecture all the time I was at architecture school). Of course, they don't. In part because they are never interested in the prime concern of producing something wonderful, in part because they can't cope with the currently unknown--which is what that which is to come and will appear as new must be. So thank you for your insistence. And long live Dada! © 2010 Ranulph Glanville |
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