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I am treating design as a text - that can be interpreted. Then again I am using design as food. Which can be queried to seek its genealogy, why is it the way it is? Food is culture. Culture is the ways of a people. And here we have a package - a bundle - that can be opened to reveal. Design seen as a bundle - a thing holding secrets - can reveal the cultural construct.

As you can see I could be making a case against design as a functional, utilitarian commodity making enterprise. Design as you will see is not work, and thus is not a thing done in workplaces. It is life itself. Phew!!

Okay if so - then the bundle (bundle again) - has a key that can be used to unpack, and reveal the secrets it holds. In fact I say that there are ten keys that show design to be a constellation of ingredients. There you are - a dish madde up of ingredients. If design is food then the design of different peoples, of different places ought to be distinct. And so it is.

Yes!

  1. Enculturation
  2. Embodiement
  3. Temperament
  4. Freedom
  5. Beauty
  6. Perfection
  7. Japonisme
  8. Japandi
  9. China
  10. Designerly Knowledge 

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Learner Centered Design Education: https://rawslearn.wordpress.com/

Who is Soumitri: http://soumitri.com.au/