Design history and theory in the making

Subject matters are made by methods of inquiry, whether the inquiry is formal and theoretical or pragmatic and practical

From this perspective, the history of design represents not only a pluralism of subject matters and products but also a pluralism of arts, methods, and techniques employed by designers and those who investigate design

These theories could provide the basic corpus and language to educate the designers of tomorrow in the logic of creation

And we need them as basic intellectual elements for life in contemporary societies that are entering the post-decisional paradigm—the design paradigm