ABSTRACT
We start from the commonplace recognition that ‘an aesthetics of design’ is always problematic insofar as ‘design’ and ‘aesthetics’ refer to divergent traditions of understanding creative activity-indeed to different traditions of such activity-despite twentieth-century attempts to resolve divergence (both in theory and in practice) around slogans such as ‘form follows function’. The essays that compose this collection all address some aspect or other of the knot of problems that arises when this subject is considered.
