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| Post Graduate Diploma in Design |
The aim of design is to make society’s problems visible and find solutions for them.
Autumn School places first importance on putting forth new propositions through our observations of society and of the world that will lead us to the discovery of new problems to be solved.
All of these works, and all of these masters’ interpretations, come together in the course “Design (The Abduction for Society)" put together by the masters themselves.
Beyond the two main forms of reasoning processes that were required since industrialism, abductive logic completes the reasoning toolbox for the thinking process. While deductive logic – logic of what must be – reasons from general to specific, and inductive logic – the logic of what is operative – reasons from specific to the general, abductive logic sought an inference to the best explanation – to posit what could possibly be true.
For creativity used to be narrowly understood as a product of nature or nurture. Today, our progress in science has advanced our understanding of the complex mechanisms of our intelligence, learning and creativity. It is now understood that genetic fitness has evolved to provide for two opposing, distinct functions of our mental process. The first is unbridled in absorbing new experiences and observations, and effervescent in making new associations and connections across them, thereby proposing new possibilities. The second works in real-time to filter new inputs and information, make decisions on relevance and distraction, and is disciplined in “staying the course” of a thinking process, thereby making it possible to complete a task, to arrive at a solution.
The key to realizing any potential successfully is therefore to execute in balance these two functions of our mental process; to be able to interpret all our existing knowledge and contemporary understandings into logically processes, into tangible states that can than be worked upon, to be constructed into real solutions.