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Objects of Desire: Design, Designers, and the Literature of Design

Reading this chapter, the following quote gave me pause related to all instructional design projects I’ve ever been involved in. The paradox of the designer:

[quote cite=”Forty, A. (1986, p. 242)”]…on the one hand, design is determined by ideas and material conditions over which designers hand no control, yet, on the other hand, designs are the result of designers exercising their creative autonomy and originality.[/quote]

Forty, A. (1986). OBJECTS OF DESIRE: DESIGN AND SOCIETY 1750-1980.

“Impossibility” by Francisco Andriani is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 

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