And it was the subsequent and literal mechanization of production that firmly separated the work of designing from making—with profound consequences for the definition of design, as a word and ...

Now a pair of Canadian academics have taken the opposite approach: They’ve attempted to formulate analytically a rigorous definition of “the design concept.” Should we take it seriously?

That’s a nice trope to use in lectures, but suffering under such a massive load of responsibility, the meaning of ‘design’ gets spread very, very thin. So thin, it loses its structure. Yet for ...