Designerly ways of knowing: Design discipline versus design science (The 1920s and the 1960s, two important periods in the modern history of design)
Designerly ways of knowing: Design discipline versus design science (The 1920s and the 1960s, two important periods in the modern history of design)
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10.1162/074793601750357196
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2001-06-01
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Cross, N
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A principal outcome of a research project at the Royal College of Art on ‘Design in General Education’was the statement of a belief in a missing ‘third area’of education. The two already-established areas can be broadly classified as education in the sciences and education in the arts, or humanities. These ‘two cultures’ have long been recognised as dominating our social, cultural and educational systems. In the traditional English educational system, especially, children have been required to choose one or other of these two cultures to specialise in at a relatively early age.The ‘third culture’is not so easily recognised, simply because it has been neglected, and has not been adequately named or articulated. In their report (Royal College of Art, 1979), Bruce Archer and his colleagues were prepared to call it ‘Design with a capital D’and to articulate it as ‘the collected experience of the material culture, and the collected body of experience, skill and understanding embodied in the arts of planning, inventing, making and doing’. From the RCA report, the following conclusions can be drawn on the nature of ‘Design with a capital D’: