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Relationships Matter
In the last post I argued that procedural issues can be as important in a decision as substantive…
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What Matters in a Decision--Procedural Issues, Too!
To choose between alternatives, a person has to identify what matters–all the important things that…
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Chimero Chapter 6
Context and Response
We must respond and move, simply because the work moves and the space around design shifts as culture changes and the adjacent possible grows. p 71
It is the designer's job to to figure out a way to have a problem show its actual self so that he can respond to the truth that has emerged. Getting to know a problem is a bit like getting to know a person: it's a gradual process that requires patience, and there is no state of completion. You can never know the full of a problem p 72-3
very much like the Friends' 'seeing the way clear'
...the best design has to offer so much more than making problems go away. Design can also build up good, desirable artifacts, experiences and situations that are additive forces in this world. It helps us live well by producing and elevating new kinds of value, such as engagement, participation, and happiness. p 77
Radar Graphs Explained
One radar graph tells a thousand NEPA appendix pages.
Nowadays, the information in radar graphs…
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Decisions Galore!
The works “Decision” keeps cropping up in these posts, much to the joy of this decision analyst. …
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The Argument Clinic
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Frank Chimero quotations
These quotations are from The Shape of Design
Our verbal cowpaths are paved through conversation. 61
The presence of the audience is what imbues the designer's work with its worth. 62
All design springs from complex ecosystems created by multiple parties' interests weaving together to produce the design. ...[the designer] produces the artifact that will join the client and audience to one another in a relationship. ... design not only becomes a way to push towards a desirable future, but also works to establish the vocabulary we use to define the terms of our engagement with one another. 62
63 negative space between flux of context... (my words)
here Chimero talks about design much as Klabbers talks about game design, that it is not cross- but trans-disciplinary
design seeks to negotiate the qualities of of the content with the affordances of the format to produce a cohesive whole greater than the sum of the parts. This situation largely describes many of the formal challenges faced by designers in their work. A wise design choice finds the tones that can slip between the content and format, snap into place, and bond one to another. 63
Design can speak the tongue of art with the force of commerce. 64
Fiction and Bridges
...must be transformative to be successful. 64
...the client and the audience both have a say in the design decision. ..the designer adds a third influence to the mix: she is trying to satiate her own creative needs in the work as well. ...negotiate the problem space... 65
[because the audience isn't there 'til the end] the designer...acts as a proxy for the audience's needs while arguing for her own creative concerns. This makes the whole arrangement precarious, because it means the designer is being paid by the client, but is obligated to the audience, for it is the audience's presence that imbues the work with its value. 65
so like public policy mediation when the agency pays...
Nothing is ever clear-cut when working in a shape-shifting practice no negotiate complicated terrain. Some trickery is necessary to get things moving once they are connected. [Coyote] 65
Fiction [by which he means the stories we tell about what can be] can also be corrosive and deteriorate the foundations of what's already been built, undermining the stability of our arrangements rather than helping to build new things or strengthening existing structures. Lies corrode our understanding of reality by misrepresenting it, like a snake-oil salesman that goes from town to town promising medicine, but selling swill. Snake-oil salesmen fork reality just like the visionary, but they have no intention of closing the gap that opens with their lie. 67
We have a hunger for a better condition, and we are, if nothing else, optimistic. The only way forward is through something we've never done, so we run full speed into the great imagined unknown to make this world for one another. 68
Frank Chimero on Design
From FrankChimero.com
Kate Digilio turned me on to Frank Chimero‘s slim and beautiful book, The…
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Mediation is a Forgiving Process
Recently, I went down to Corvallis to participate in a panel about mediation. It was fun. I especially liked being in a small group with another experienced practitioner and three or four new mediatiors struggling with the early learning. We two old hands…
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Disambiguating 'Planning' and 'Design'--sort of
This book has several good definitions. “A hand is to hold.” “A face is something to have on the…
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Weber on Bureaucracy
Philip and I are writing a book about collaboration and bureaucracy. We are also trying notto use this blog to explore the book directly, but rather to get at subtexts and related questions: questions like what planning is or–the next big series–a…
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The Paradox of Constraint and Future Choice in Planning
In previous posts in this series and Planning and Design, I proposed that planning operates by…
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Mediators Play High and Low Status at Once
Mediators have an unusual role in that they play high and low status at the same time. In a lot of jobs, such as teaching or managing, being able to go from high to low or low to high temporarily can be a matter of genius. But I think mediation is unique…
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Kandinsky, Correa and my Astounding Daughter
I clipped this from www.northerncalstyle.com
My daughter turns 16 today.
From the very beginning,…
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Charles Correa on the unseen
Stones are, by our definition, no more than the material they comprise (if there is a secret life of stones, we are unaware of it). Plants, consist of physical materials, with a new entity added--life!--and the journey towards the invisible has begun. Animals consist of materials, plus life, plus motivation. With humankind, there is yet another entity--self-awareness--which puts us in the world of the unseen. For everything essential in our fellow humans--their thoughts, their emotions, aspirations, fantasies--are invisible to us. These 'invisibilia' are of infinitely greater power and significance than the visibilia of everyday life.
In the essay "The Public, the Private and the Sacred" found on p 29 of A Place in the Shade by Charles Correa. Hatje Cantz but can't tell the year because of all the interlibrary loan attachments.
Why Not All Policy Can (Will) Be Made at the Top
http://173.210.1.82/outside2/Art/Encke/VC%20VISUAL%20COMMUNICATIONS/VC%20HOMEWORK%201.%20Q4.htm
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