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Design amidst Feuds and Fields: The timeliness of the "rectification of names" proposed by Confucius in the contemporary Babel of newlyforged, catchy concepts, terms, and expressions in the field of design
2020
Cuadernos del Centro de Estudios en Diseño y Comunicación. Ensayos
This essay examines whether contemporary design is undergoing a decline in its standards of professional and pedagogic quality, due to an identity crisis which has apparently been affecting the field since the late sixties. In light of Confucius' "rectification of names" imperative, various linguistic and aesthetic implications associated with the alleged loss of design conceptual benchmarks of the very identity and definition of the design discipline and profession are explored. It analyses
doi:10.18682/cdc.vi80.3692
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