Frances to Saul and others... My guess at the seeming "drift" is derived from reading the documented content of course programs in academic calendars from "art and design" schools and colleges and universities in North America over at least the last sixty years. Between 1960 and 1980 in Canada and California for example the visual "design" curricula in graphic planning and land planning for example placed their main emphasis on topics like aesthetic philosophies and information theories and communication models and semiotic systems and thinking techniques and perceptual theses. The thrust then it seems to me was more rationalist and socialist, but less subjectivist and capitalist. It may be relevant to note that the now defunct Ulm School once in West Germany and successor to the old Bauhaus was ironically forced to quit its design programs around 1968 because by most reliable accounts it failed to meet the nationalist needs of a newly revised Prussia emerging out of the ashes of a world war, because the university was simply too liberal and universal in its thrust. (The statement made by Boris by the way may have missed my main point; but suffice to say that if a bond and link is a matter of degree, then a drift or rift is likely possible.)
Saul replied... Can you both please explain based on what you make these assertions. Frances partly wrote... "If it is true that such art at least in academia is drifting away from the humanities and philosophy but more toward the technes and sciences, then it seems to me that design is drifting away from logic and theory but more toward craft and skill." Boris partly wrote... "Logic and theory is a part of craft and skill, to some degree, and can't be drifted away from each other.
