介绍 - 麻省理工学院人工智能研究专业

介绍

The work assembled in this issue addresses a stimulating variety
of topics and themes and frames our understanding of design in
provocative and diverse ways.

In recent years Design Issues has tracked efforts to expand
and refine an appreciation of design as a distinctive way to connect
thinking and acting. The first article by Stephanie Wilson and Lisa
Zamberlan is a contribution to this on-going process of rendering
design less mysterious. In their piece on the design of a hospital bed
Søsser Brodersen, Meiken Hansen and Hanne Lindegaard remind
us that design in healthcare settings involves more than the design
of discrete objects. Designers are involved in what they identify as
the configuration of socio-material assemblies.

DJ Huppatz’s latest contribution to the journal is a re-assess-
ment of Herbert Simon’s seminal book The Science of Design. Simon’s
text has long been considered foundational for design and truly
seminal texts demand regular and thoughtful revisiting. Returning
to classic texts like Simon’s is one way a field like design matures;
another useful strategy involves the recovery and presentation of
archival materials that enrich our understanding of the interaction
between design and technology. John Harwood draws from the
papers of Elliot Noyes and Charles and Ray Eames to present doc-
uments from the 1950s and 60s that shed new light on a fascinating
chapter in the story of computer design. The memoranda Harwood
has retrieved belong to an intriguing historical moment when com-
puters were no longer strictly the domain of a small community of
scientists and engineers and designers were beginning to grapple
with the challenge of making the new technology accessible to the
non-specialist.

In reviewing the emergence of critical design as an operative
design strategy Matt Malpass probes the implications of the concept
of critical design for the traditional understanding of such basic
design concepts as function. In their account of design for the Por-
tugal’s national airline TAP Leonor Ferrão and Pedro Gentil-Homem
demonstrate how design analysis can be used as a lens through
which to assess the discrepancy between the ideologically deter-
mined image of a country projected through an enterprise such as
the national airline and the socio-economic reality that begins
just beyond the runway. The relationship between design visions
and designed realities is central to the final article included here by
Alen Žunić and Fedja Vukić. The authors described how efforts to

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articulate a comprehensive vision of modernism ultimately fared
better in the pages of architectural journals than on the building
sites of Socialist housing campaigns in Croatia. Film and book
reviews by Victor Margolin, John Blakinger, Gökhan Ersan, 彼得
McNeil and Kees Dorst complete the Table of Contents.

A simple listing of articles, documents and reviews is
inadequate to portray this (或任何) issue of the journal. The whole
is greater than the sum of its parts and a further comment is war-
ranted here. In recent decades a vibrant design culture has emerged.
Research is one focused component of this culture. Typically a
design researcher comes to the journal in search of material rele-
vant to a particular topic. But readers return to the journal—issue
after issue, volume after volume—in search of more than material
that supports their research. Design culture thrives on sustained
conversations addressing a diversity of topics. The editors of Design
Issues are committed to supporting this broader concept of design
文化. We think of the journal as a forum, an intellectual space in
which people passionate about design (or sometimes simply curi-
乌斯) can take the pulse of design discourse, be exposed to areas of
inquiry different from their own and reflect on a broad spectrum
of design activities and positions. There is an excitement in being
part of such an on-going intellectual adventure. Enjoy!

Bruce Brown
理查德·布坎南
卡尔·迪萨尔沃
Dennis Doordan
维克多·马戈林

Kenji Ekuan 1929–2015
We regret the passing of Kenji Ekuan, Japanese industrial design-
是, on February 8, 2015 in Tokyo. Ekuan was a leader in promoting
industrial design as a profession in Japan and around the world.
Trained as a Buddhist monk as well as a designer, Ekuan was a co-
founder of GK Design, one of Japan’s leading postwar design firms;
and as a principal of that firm, he was responsible for the design
of myriad products ranging from motorcycles and bicycles to light-
ing fixtures and musical instruments. One iconic GK product is
the Kikkoman soy sauce bottle of 1961. Ekuan was active on inter-
national design juries and in Japanese and international design
组织. He was President of the International Council of Soci-
eties of Industrial Design (ICSID) 从 1976 到 1979. His book The
Aesthetics of the Japanese Lunchbox (1998) has been widely read by
designers and students around the world.

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