gsmith | September 4, 2009There are a number of conversations that telescope out of Anthony Dunne's answer to the question as to how and where we might combine disciplines. Although brief, the comments reveal a (welcome) attitude that addresses fields of inquiry as approaches rather than binding frameworks. This desire to sample and mix freely is clearly at play in Dunne's design practice and it is worth zooming in on a few of his past comments to provide additional context.
In a 2007 interview with Régine Debatty, Dunne described the necessity to critically engage emerging fields such as biotechnology, nanotechnology…
gsmith | September 4, 2009
Below, Anthony Dunne answers the second of our three questions.
In my experience, the biggest obstacle to successful cross-disciplinary approaches is personality clashes, usually based on ego, territorialism and petty power struggles.
I think combining political science, economics, and ethics with areas such as synthetic biology and neuroscience could yield very interesting results. Design would be the glue.
gsmith | September 1, 2009Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords - philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather
Thus stated the nineteenth-century writer Anna Jameson and the truth of these words certainly still resonate today, perhaps even more so. It is definitely an honor to have been invited into the Revolutionary Minds Think Tank fold as I find these kind of collaborative conversations essential in overcoming the boundaries that frame individual disciplines. Strange and wonderful things happen when experts make lateral moves and start to assess and schematize other domains. How does…