Ranjans Notes

Books & URL

"General Systems Theory- Bertalanffy"
"Beer System Model- Stafford Beer"
"The Design Way..."
"Platform for change"
www.nextd.org
"Rotman school of management"


People

Daniel Thalmann -- Swiss CG Expert
Richard Florida--socialist defining creative class---www.creativeclass.org
Charles Owen-- Prof of Illinois Inst of Tech, chicago
Stafford Beer- Platform for change
Claude Levi-Strauss French anthropologist
Johannes Itten
CK Prahlad
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi---noted for his work in the study of happiness, creativity
John Thakara---DOTT07

Words

Inploration - Act of introspection or inward journey for purpose of design
Ontology
Visuality
Sensuality
Specialist v/s Genralist
Bauhaus
ULM
Model
Representation
Structure
Form
Visualization

Design is not for the industry its for the

people

Know the real to abstract it and define it in

structure

Cause and effect needs to be challenged

Recognition of patterns and expressing those patterns

matter

Design is about Reality. It needs to awaken basic sense of

thinking

Access a book when you are ready not when the book is

ready

Does meta understanding require the individual to be a

part of the system or be outside it?
MPR:The individual has to be a part of it as well as has to look at

the system as a whole in an unbiased way.

Science is true until proven wrong

Design deals with the particular

You can never make a great design it depends on the

context