Sascha Brossmann
Aug 31, 2018 · 1 min read

I beg to disagree, sir, they don’t have the answers for today, they only had answers for their own time yesterday. But good old HCI might have some valuable questions for our contemporary breed of design history amnesiacs to answer ;) Well, probably not good old HCI, but rather good old systems thinking alongside with other neglected gems of the 20th century in general and Modernism in particular. You already named e. g. Mumford. Gregory Bateson, anyone? Umberto Maturana and Francisco Varela? The whole seminal Ulm school of design? Rayner Banham? Brand and the ‘Whole Earth Catalog’? The downplayed intermediate Bauhaus era of Hannes Meyer (1928–1930)? The Scandinavian lineage of co-creation ? I still have this pipe dream that in some improbable but nonetheless contingent future design might finally grow into a discipline that — i.e. its community of practitioners—is self-aware at least to such a degree that we are not condemned to re-invent our own history over and over and over. ;)

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