DESIGN CULTURE (System-oriented): The CHIOS DECLARATION 1)2)4)
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A. COLLEN and W. GASPARSKI (1995, p.453-55) reproduce the following concepts formulated in this declaration by the participants of a Workshop on Developing a Design Culture in Higher Education that took place on the Island of Chios in Greece (1988).
The Declaration appeals for "a system-oriented design culture as an alternative culture to cope with the complexity of contemporary world"
"The culture is defined by the following four goals:
"1. To develop articulated design philosophy that can be accepted to guide intellectual leadership to creating the culture.
"2. To develop a suitable language for communicating design concepts.
"3. To create a better balance between analysis and synthesis in education and practice.
"4. To create a less restrictive but still definite view of what constitutes acceptable scientific knowledge".
The following suggestions were made to enhance the quality of design in systemic terms:
" - Open discussions on design culture with the participation of non-design culture oriented people (from academia, specific design professions, and laymen) should be organized.
" - Widely defined multidisciplinary research groups should be introduced.
" - A common understanding of the concept of "design" and its connection with systems theory, planning, strategic management, and other relevant theories should be developed.
" - The presently existing conceptual scheme of systems thinking and a system based design theory with general acceptability to the relevant view of human action should be completed.
" - The design theory should be positioned within the wider outlook of systems sciences and curricula that teach it as a core subject at the M.S. and Ph.D. levels, should be developed.
" - Social system models of an operating design culture in higher education should be developed.
" - A devoted multidisciplinary group of people to play the leading role in the spread of design culture should be developed,
" - The maximum possible resources to these areas of science that will offer the means to the society to take full and quick advantage of a new integrated language culture should be allocated".
By way of conclusion, W. GASPARSKI quotes H. SIMON, who wrote in "The Science of Design": "The real subject of the new intellectual free trade among the many cultures are our own thought processes. We are importing and exporting from one intellectual discipline to another ideas about how a serially organized in-formation-processing system like a human being - or a computer, or a complex of men and women and computers in organized cooperation - solves problems and achieves goals in outer environments of great complexity….
"… we can conclude that, in a large part, the proper study of mankind is the science of design, not only as the professional component of a technical education, but as a core discipline for every liberally educated person" (1981, p. 159)
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