I actually don't think architecture is such a great comparison when you really start thinking about it.
One could might as well ask the architect. "Does Architecture push any bounds beyond architects artistic ambitions? Is there any usable or useful pursuit in the discipline that's not based on solving the the artist ambitions, but in providing proper usage of your building?" Many architectural schools belong to the art department so they create architects who come out thinking they are artist who should create masterpieces and push the clients beyond the clients ambitions (which most of the times also means budget). They are like many visual designers caught between problem solving and aesthetics. But in the digital world, composition is death and the internet is the realization of post-modernism. To lend from architecture would be to move oneselves even further away from whatever service or product we are designing. Some areas of architecture such as landscape architecture are actually more important that the Frank Gehry types (although I am a big fan of their work) So if we are to lend from anyone it should be from areas, that don't see their work as a monument to be admired from afar but as a an environment to be actively used every day. My list would include among others: Industrial Designers, Engineers, Information Design, Motion Graphics, Neuroscience, Manufacturing, critical theory, programming, landscape architecutre, public transport planning. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=46168 ________________________________________________________________ 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
