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Rodgers, Inella and Bremner (2017) discuss seven paradoxes of design practice, which they characterise as follows:
- Design is very undisciplined as a discipline
- The easier it becomes to design, the harder it is to design
- Design has become impoverished by the claim that good design equals good business
- The originality claimed by design is in reality derivative
- The usefulness of design research lies in its uselessness
- The claim by design to be responsible is irresponsible
- The devotion of design to sustainability is unsustainable
Steven Vial points to the following paradoxical injunctions to which designers are called upon to respond and resolve:
- The meta-market injunction: Be a socialist and a capitalist at one and the same time!
- The disruptive injunction: Be innovative!
- The global problem-solving injunction: Save the world!
References
Rodgers, P. A., Innella, G. and Bremner, C. (2017) ‘Paradoxes in design thinking’, The Design Journal, 20(sup1), pp. S4444–S4458. doi: 10.1080/14606925.2017.1352941.
Vial, S. (2013) ‘Designers and paradoxical injunctions’, in IASDR 2013: 5th International Congress of the International Association of Societies of Design Research (August 2013, Tokyo Japan). Available at: http://design-cu.jp/iasdr2013/papers/2124-1b.pdf (Accessed: 15 July 2018).
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