Design as a linguistic activity

Bertil Ekdahl

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Abstract

Design starts with a cognitive model and ends with a solution worked out in a way that fits into the human context of meaning which is socially decided. The bridge between the cognitive model and the final system, or thing, is a proper description that has to be possible to socially communicate. The necessary description part leads to the understanding that design, like sciences, is a kind of learning. To realize that we may observe that in design extraction of regularities are of main concern in order to be able to make a description. Both the search for order and its description are characteristic learning. Since learning is going on in a language the same is valid for design
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication6th World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics. Proceedings
PublisherInt. Inst. Inf. & Syst
Pages161-166
ISBN (Print)980-07-8150-1
Publication statusPublished - 2002
Event6th World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics - Orlando, FL, United States
Duration: 2002 Jul 142002 Jul 18

Conference

Conference6th World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityOrlando, FL
Period2002/07/142002/07/18

Subject classification (UKÄ)

  • Engineering and Technology

Free keywords

  • design extraction
  • characteristic learning
  • language
  • meaning
  • social communication
  • human context
  • linguistic activity design
  • cognitive model

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