1. Art’s task for science Prof.dr.ir. Taeke M. de Jong
Koninklijke Academie voor Beeldende Kunsten Den Haag
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Faculty of Architecture, Department of Urbanism, Chair Technical ecology

2. empirical science, design and art
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3. the usual view (co-editor vd Voordt)
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4. a plausible view
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5. design study For example: Architecture at a University
Context sensitivity
Other categories describing design issues
Methodology to make use of each others progress
Scientific justification
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6. da Vinci 1509, Harvey 1628
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7. science supposes design, not the reverse
Probability supposes possibility
Imaginations and designed instruments precede scientific progress
Design uses empirical results but produces something else
Science is not necessarily part of design but of its realisation
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8. advantages of scientific education for design
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9. advantages of scientific education for design
Less vulnerable in their company
Natura Artis Magistra
Balancing and integrating specialist’s advices into a design concept
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10. emerging problems of science
Cern
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11. emerging problems of science
Diverging specialisations
Facts no longer imaginable
Science falling in public esteem
A demand for imagination
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12. art’s task
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13. art’s task A lack of imagination Global homogenisation
Decreasing awareness of the real diversity
The combinatory explosion of possibility
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14. back to childhood
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15. back to childhood Exploring the incomparable
Combining different sensory impressions
Concept formation
Moving experience
Object constancy
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16. composition
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17. composition Components and details Different components Tension
Observable variables or differences
Resolution
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18. the vocabulary of image and sound
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19. the vocabulary of image and sound
Categories of design: legends, notes, intervals
A vocabulary of drawing and music
Characteristic, crucial, connecting and marking details
Three visual examples of style and scale
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20. exploring possibility, limitations of imagination
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21. exploring possibility, limitations of imagination
1 Without difference, nothing can be chosen, imagined or realized.
1.1 'Attention' supposes difference.
1.2 'Boundary' supposes a difference of object and context.
1.3 'Variation' supposes different differences.
1.4 'Comparison' supposes equality in difference.
1.5 'Reduction' supposes less difference than impression.
1.6 'Identification' supposes difference of location or occasion.
1.7 'Image' supposes difference of identification
1.8 'Criterion' supposes a chosen difference.
1.9 'Variable' supposes a set
1.10 'Legend' supposes difference in location and attribute
1.11 'Imagination' supposes different reductions  …
2 'Change' supposes a difference without denial.
3 'Coherence' supposes duration in change.
4 'Isolation' supposes freedom in coherence.
5 'Selection' supposes consistency in isolation. ….
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22. conclusion
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23. conclusion Truth, probability, possibility and imaginability
Improbable possibilities
Science as design
Instruments of imagination
Condition and cause
Supposition and definition
IMAGINATION
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