Prof. Kristo Ivanov, Informatik: ETHICS AND POLITICS IN DESIGN AND SYSTEM CULTURES (based on "Creating a design culture")

This seminar, as some possible further follow-up seminars on the same issue of systems design later on, takes advantage of the opportunity afforded by our colleague Erik Stolterman's invitation to comment his and Harold Nelson's manuscript (version July 2001:v2) of a book on "Creating a design culture". I will highlight some political and ethical problems that are implicit in certain design-conceptions. The seminar will thus center on how the dialectical systems approach may (yes!) approach the attempt of "creating a design culture" (design of wholes).

THIS SEMINAR PRESUPPOSES THE PARTICIPANTS' PRIOR READING OF THE MANUSCRIPT OR AT LEAST §§ 1-22 OF THE DOCUMENTATION DISTRIBUTED DURING THE SEMINAR THE PAST WEEK, OCTOBER 10TH, available now at:

http://www.informatik.umu.se/~kivanov/DesSysCulture.html.

The seminar follows the introduction given in the previous seminar of

October 10th, according to the announcement at

http://www.informatik.umu.se/seminarier/2001/1002717000-1002718800.mit-hus e t.mc413 ,

and a background for my comments and problematizations will be my own papers on some cores ideas of later years' emphasis on design, that I recently summarized, to begin with, in the extended word-index to "The Design of Inquiring Systems":

http://www.informatik.umu.se/~kivanov/chuindex.html or (better layout) in

http://www.informatik.umu.se/~kivanov/chuindex.pdf , plus

http://www.informatik.umu.se/~kivanov/Chu-SysAppDes.html (reprints available in the stands in front of our lunch room) on the basis of the following earlier partial essays

http://www.informatik.umu.se/~kivanov/page6.html

http://www.informatik.umu.se/~kivanov/chinese.html , and

http://www.informatik.umu.se/~kivanov/PerspSem2000.html , latest version's (2001-10-10) paragraphs (on design) §§5.7, 6.4, 6.8, 7, and (on eclecticism) 8.4.13.

Välkommna!
John Cumberbatch