{"id":784,"date":"2015-12-05T16:27:33","date_gmt":"2015-12-05T21:27:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ccsmfa.wordpress.com\/?p=784"},"modified":"2021-01-18T18:59:43","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T23:59:43","slug":"design-is-conversation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pangaro.com\/designconversation\/2015\/12\/design-is-conversation\/","title":{"rendered":"Design is Conversation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The paper <a href=\"http:\/\/pangaro.com\/designconversation\/wp-content\/uploads\/dubberly-pangaro-chk-journal-2015.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Cybernetics and Design: Conversations for Action&#8221; [PDF]<\/a> has recently gone to print in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imprint.co.uk\/product\/cybernetics-human-knowing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">peer-reviewed journal<\/a>. It offers\u00a0a rationale for the position that\u00a0design <em><strong>is<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0conversation; perhaps a surprising idea, but the logic in the paper is\u00a0rigorous. <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/41776276\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cybernetics<\/a> offers a foundation for <a href=\"http:\/\/pangaro.com\/designconversation\/2015\/11\/what-will-21st-century-designers-do\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">21st-century design practice<\/a>, here is the core of it:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We construe design as a conversation for action\u2014that is, as cybernetics. Action may <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dubberly.com\/articles\/systemic-and-meta-systemic-laws.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">either conserve or change<\/a> a situation. In other words, design is a conversation about what to conserve and what to change, a conversation about what we value. Both design and cybernetic systems involve a process of observing a situation as having some limitations, reflecting on how and why to improve that situation, and acting to improve it. This follows the circular process of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dubberly.com\/concept-maps\/creative-process.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">observe\u2192reflect\u2192make<\/a> that is common to the recursive and accumulative process of learning in service of effective action, as is found in science, medicine, biological systems, manufacturing, and everyday living.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The interweaving of the history and influences of cybernetics across design and computing is <a href=\"http:\/\/pangaro.com\/designconversation\/2015\/10\/how-cybernetics-connects-computing-counterculture-and-design\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">complex and interesting<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The paper &#8220;Cybernetics and Design: Conversations for Action&#8221; [PDF] has recently gone to print in a peer-reviewed journal. It offers\u00a0a rationale for the position that\u00a0design is\u00a0conversation; perhaps a surprising idea, but the logic in the paper is\u00a0rigorous. Cybernetics offers a foundation for 21st-century design practice, here is the core of it:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13,6,9],"tags":[56,61,62,64,90,91],"class_list":["post-784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybernetics","category-interaction-design","category-pangaro","tag-conversation","tag-cybernetics-2","tag-design","tag-design-literacy","tag-interaction","tag-interaction-design-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paKWzH-cE","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pangaro.com\/designconversation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pangaro.com\/designconversation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pangaro.com\/designconversation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pangaro.com\/designconversation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pangaro.com\/designconversation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=784"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pangaro.com\/designconversation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3220,"href":"https:\/\/pangaro.com\/designconversation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784\/revisions\/3220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pangaro.com\/designconversation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pangaro.com\/designconversation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pangaro.com\/designconversation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}