Design: Necessity or Desire

Claudia Westermann

doi:10.1016/j.sheji.2019.11.016

Design: Necessity or Desire

Claudia Westermann

Department of Architecture

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Abstract

This essay presents a commentary on Michael Lissack's article “Understanding Is a Design Problem: Cognizing from a Designerly Thinking Perspective.” I contextualize key terms and ideas, and raise several questions concerning the relation between the concept of compression and design.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	396-398
Number of pages	3
Journal	She Ji
Volume	5
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sheji.2019.11.016
Publication status	Published - 1 Dec 2019

Keywords

Cognition
Second-order Cybernetics
design
representation

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