Can Design Advance Science, and Can Science Advance Design?

Essay, expanding design practices, Joichi Ito, No Density, Technology and fabrication

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Originally published in JODS -- https://jods.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/designandscience/release/2

On Professor Neri Oxman’s Krebs Cycle of Creativity of the relationship between the disciplines, design and science are opposite one another on the circle, and the output of one is not the input of the other as is often the case of engineering and design or science and engineering. I believe that by making a “lens” and a fusion of design and science, we can fundamentally advance both. This connection includes both the science of design and the design of science, as well as the dynamic relationship between these two activities.