The Open University M206 Object Oriented Programming

The Open University T262 Man-Made Futures: Design & Technology

Catherine Mason’s 2008 A computer in the art room: The origins of british computer art 1950-80 captures a formative period and some of the individuals who inspired me then and later.

The poverty of design theory and the antagonism towards marxist method.

June 26th, 2009 by timjomartin posted on DesignResearchNetwork

Marxist method and theoretical practice still offers the most fruitful and enduring base for the integration of design research with the main strands of philosophy and intellectual history. Sharing in the rationalisation of change and transformation in both it’s social and technical dimensions. Marxism and design are both products of capitalist social relations with the potential of rising beyond their origins in a human future.

Thoughts to be continued ...

• Questions & Hypotheses
• design
• ideology
• innovation
• marxism
• theory

My University was a combination of:
Victor Papanek, Design for Need,
Getting elected as vice president at Birmingham Polytechnic in 1977,
Buckminster Fuller, and the Design for Need conference/exhibition at the RCA 1978, Revolutionary Communist Tendency ... and Party
Capital Reading Group @ ULU Summer 1980,
Department of Design Research at the Royal College of Art 1980-85,