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Exchange of Ideas #2
(2017)
This catalogue is a publication of the University of Kassel to conclude the guest professorship of Yael Mer during the academic year 2015/2016. It is digitally published and is the second in a series of guest professor-catalogues for the Product Design Course of the School of Art and Design Kassel.
Working paper
Exchange of Ideas #1
(2015)
This catalogue is a publication of the University of Kassel to conclude the guest professorship of Ineke Hans during the academic year 2014/2015. It is digitally published and is the first in a series of guest professor catalogues for the Product Design Course of the School of Art and Design Kassel.
Working paper
Designing in the real world is complex anyway - so what?
(2006-07-18)
Designing is a heterogeneous, fuzzily defined, floating field of various activities and chunks of ideas and knowledge. Available theories about the foundations of designing as presented in "the basic PARADOX" (Jonas and Meyer-Veden 2004) have evoked the impression of Babylonian confusion. We located the reasons for this "mess" in the "non-fit", which is the problematic relation of theories and subject field. There seems to be a comparable interface problem in theory-building as in designing itself. "Complexity" sounds ...