Chris and Jonas' sparked an idea for me in this thread. For our work, unless deployed, how do we judge success/failure? I'm sure this can be translated to other degrees of practice. I mean how did we know Bilbao was going to be a "success" before it was built. Most confidently kept their same opinion before (from the model) that they have after the fact.
What allows other disciplines to have a more confident set of judgment that doesn't require the full production of the item in order for it to be envalued? In the case of this cancer community, I mean how does the student judge whether their notions of community building in this context will work? Is it comparative to the successes and failures of other existing communities (related and unrelated)? For me this speaks to a strong need to understand the foundations of our medium so that we can clearly communicate success/failure amongst each other in the theoretical space. So even a partial prototype in my mind only works in the environment of such foundational analysis and maybe lacking that is why those who come from areas that have those foundations are drawn towards completion in order to lay a more accurate judgment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=23446 ________________________________________________________________ *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
