ABSTRACT
If We Consider Design To Be The “conception and planning of the artificial,” a definition which I developed with my colleague Richard Buchanan, then its scope and boundaries are intimately entwined with our understanding of the artificial’s limits. That is to say, in extending the domain within which we conceive and plan, we are widening the boundaries of design practice. To the degree that design makes incursions into realms that were once considered as belonging to nature rather than culture, so does the conceptual scope of design practice widen.
