Design is the rightful child of Art and Engineering
Is anything worth maximizing? On metrics, society, and selves
https://medium.com/fwd-thoughts/the-future-is-without-apps-ddf43ec52aab#.a0q670oen
This new spirit of creation was addressed by Buckminster Fuller in his notion of the “comprehensive designer”, which he describes as “an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist”
Generative design
As Pask noted, “architects are first and foremost systems designers,” but they lack “an underpinning and unifying theory… Cybernetics is a discipline which fills the bill” [36]. By systematically integrating context and relationships, cybernetics pushed creation & design beyond its object-based approach.