Prof. Krippendorff published in Collection 3

Klaus Krippendorff, Ph.D.

Klaus Krippendorff, Ph.D., the Gregory Bateson Professor for Cybernetics, Language, and Culture, recently published the paper, “Human-centered design: A cultural necessity (edited reprint of “A Trajectory of Artificiality and new Principles of Design for the Information Age”) in the journal Collection 3 Paris (Ecole Parsons a Paris, 2011).
 

This papers draws on a recently published history of paradigmatic design problems. It argues that we are in transition from a culture that was dominated by science (modernism) and the belief in the goodness of technology, to a culture that, while ushered in by information technologies, recognizes design as a human virtue and as its primary organizing feature (constructivism). To this end, it offers several propositions of an epistemologically informed and, hence, human-centered approach to design. It culminates in a sketch of what design education should and can contribute to this new culture.