The result is again an intermediate stage.
Dear young man, one of your possible futures has become my past. It is the core of design to provide improbable possibilities. Looking for probability or 'truth' based equations hampers our view on the inconceivable diversity of possible worlds. Our probable futures are a tiny part of the possible ones. Designing is coping with possible futures, not only with the probable ones. It is not sufficient for the problems which we face this century. Designing is not merely copying or combining old things. Our designs make something different, not something equal. Our senses observe indescribable differences, unacceptably reduced when described through written word. Equality is a special case of difference, not the other way around, as Chris Van Leeuwen already suggested to both of us. These drawings are crucial for this thesis, for design in general, and for a science coping with possibilities rather than extrapolating past truths into probabilities. I thus have included some of your drawings, but I also improved the others, and I substantially extended their number and content. You still trusted the limited capacities of words. For example, a written and spoken language on its own fails to describe crucial diversities, this is where you failed. You did not realise in 1978 what I have since discovered. You would have been fascinated and surprised, as I was, rewriting it. I have used your table of contents, but, believe me, the content itself has had to be completely re-written. Now I have written my own thesis ( Diversifying the environment ).
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I continued your search how to increase environmental diversity by design during the time since you wrote your Dutch thesis ( Milieudifferentiatie ). I am probably even more scared about the increasing homogeneity of our environment (endangering biodiversity and the freedom of choice for future generations) than you are. I thank you for this early insight and direction. I realised that you have written the study programme that I have followed until now. Many design-related theses can be written within this framework. However, you where right that they have to be elaborated more precisely and bound to scale.
The terms you used: content, form, structure, function and intention, are common everybody uses them. Your framework and table of contents are useful, sound and simple. Nevertheless, you showed more awareness about levels of scale than your colleagues. As a supervisor, to be honest, I would not accept such a thesis.
Now in 2012 I can answer many of the questions you have left unanswered, or even unquestioned. You have produced many superfluous pages, you have invented many useless terms, and you have left many gaps. Dear young man, you did a nice job in 1978, but you have made your thesis too complicated and too simple. de Jong Marsmanhove CM Zoetermeer 4Ħ Preface Dear readers, please wait a moment, and allow me to calm down the angry young man there in the background first. de Jong Preface 5 1 Three language games 15 2 Questions, limits, problems, aims 45 3 Diversifying content Diversifying form Diversifying structure Diversifying function Diversifying intention Possibilities for education and study Conclusion Summary 291 Afterword 293 Index 311 3ĥ ISBN This thesis is downoadable from > Publications 2012 Hardcopies: T.M. Zwart Technische Universiteit Delft, Values and Technology 2Ĥ DIVERSIFYING ENVIRONMENTS through design Taeke M. Stive Technische Universiteit Delft, Waterbouwkunde Dr. Sijmons, promotor Technische Universiteit Delft, Landscape Architecture Prof.dr.ir. Schouten Wageningen University & Research centre, Natuurbeheer en plantenecologie Prof. van Keulen Technische Universiteit Delft, Precision and Microsystems Engineering Prof. De Hoog, promotor Technische Universiteit Delft Urbanism Prof. van den Akker Technische Universiteit Delft, Chemical Engineering Transport Phenomena Prof. Sijmons Samenstelling promotiecommissie: Rector Magnificus, voorzitter Prof. Luyben voorzitter van het College voor Promoties in het openbaar te verdedigen op dinsdag 18 december 2012 om 10:00 uur door Taeke Marten DE JONG Bouwkundig ingenieur geboren te Utrechtģ Dit proefschrift is goedgekeurd door de promotoren: Prof. 2 DIVERSIFYING ENVIRONMENTS through design Proefschrift ter verkrijging van de graad van doctor aan de Technische Universiteit Delft op gezag van de Rector Magnificus Prof.
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