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Toolboxes and Treasure-chests

About Toolboxes and Treasure-chests
          intro
About Unification and Systemisation in Design Theory
          intro.aboutusdt
About Design Theory
          intro.aboutusdt.personal
About Unification and Systemisation
          intro.aboutusdt.shack
Join the Wave
          intro.aboutusdt.revolt
Fine Print
          intro.aboutusdt.quidpro
Of Creation
          intro.turtle
Building the Fish
          intro.abouttbtc
Kent's Call
          intro.abouttbtc.fishbones
Lament of the Vellum
          intro.abouttbtc.fishsticks
The Lost Verse of Kent's Call
          intro.abouttbtc.clinking
Toolboxes
          tb
Perception
          tb.percept
Functional Aesthetics
          tb.percept.need
Need and the ability to cope with our environment
          tb.percept.need.tiger
New Sadism Discovered in School of Design
          tb.percept.need.storm
Programme of the 25th Annual Symposium on Sadism in Design
          tb.percept.need.camel
Sensitive Materials
          tb.percept.secret
The Senses and Perceptual Fields
          tb.percept.secret.flowers
Encyclopaedia Panoptica
          tb.percept.secret.bees
Knowledge
          tb.percept.secret.spynet
Four-pronged Perception
          tb.percept.trident
Filtering and Abstraction of the Perceptual Field
          tb.percept.trident.fork
Recognising Known Patterns within a Field
          tb.percept.trident.target
The Computer Programmer's Guide to Child-rearing
          tb.percept.trident.throw
Psycho-maths Respond to Denunciation by True Mathematicians
          tb.percept.trident.refine
Depth
          tb.depth
The Two Valleys
          tb.depth.depthsplit.corny
Deep Body
          tb.depth.depthsplit.body
Deep Thought
          tb.depth.depthsplit.mind
Faking Depth
          tb.depth.depthsplit.feeling
A Crisis of Creation (Maybe)
          tb.depth.mansplit.crisis
There's Complexity for You
          tb.depth.mansplit.individual
Here's Complexity for Us
          tb.depth.mansplit.society
Questions of Consistency
          tb.depth.eljoin.shoes
Questions of Judgement and Subtlety
          tb.depth.eljoin.makeup
Purification and Beauty in Simplicity
          tb.depth.antidepth.beauty
Of Crime
          tb.depth.antidepth.ornament
Suggestive geometry
          tb.depth.antidepth.suggest
Abstract Art
          tb.depth.antidepth.compose
Playing Around
          tb.play
Scribing Play
          tb.play.scribe
Pitching Play
          tb.play.need
Home to Dinner
          tb.play.judge
Need and Power
          tb.function
The Time Before
          tb.function.true.history
"Rabid" Functionalism
          tb.function.true.rabid
"Foam-less" Functionalism
          tb.function.true.nofoam
Principles of User-centred Design
          tb.function.engineer.user
The Limit
          tb.function.engineer.rrr
Identification and Association
          tb.ident
Identification vs. Identification
          tb.ident.identsplit
Bee-stings and Balm
          tb.ident.bee
Wasps Nests
          tb.ident.wasp
Treasure-chests
          tc
Instinctually Recognised Patterns
          tc.instinct
Similarities
          tc.instinct.sim
Similarity of Attribute or Form
          tc.instinct.sim.motif
Similarity of Position or Relationship
          tc.instinct.sim.pos
Differentiation
          tc.instinct.dif
Harmony and Natural Order
          tc.instinct.dif.harmony
Immediately Recognised Patterns
          tc.immed
"Platonic" Forms
          tc.immed.tonic
Human and Animal Forms and Features
          tc.immed.tooth
Form Interrelations and Alterations (Physical)
          tc.immed.formal
Depth as a Recognisable Pattern
          tc.immed.woods
Generators and Organisers
          tc.genorg
Generators
          tc.genorg.gen
Ruled Generators
          tc.genorg.gen.ruler
Automatic Systems
          tc.genorg.gen.ruler.borg
Semiautomatic Systems
          tc.genorg.gen.ruler.demiborg
Traditional, Non-automated Detailing
          tc.genorg.gen.ruler.slave
Prefabrication and Mechanisation
          tc.genorg.gen.ruler.canned
Direct Generators
          tc.genorg.gen.hands
User-centred Design
          tc.genorg.gen.hands.user
Temporal Dedication
          tc.genorg.gen.hands.calluses
Borrowed Complexity
          tc.genorg.gen.hands.crib
Mimesis, Mimetics
          tc.genorg.gen.hands.crib.mime
Creative Process as Generator
          tc.genorg.gen.hands.crib.mime.process
Charismatic Design
          tc.genorg.gen.hands.crib.mime.ego
Nature
          tc.genorg.gen.hands.crib.mime.eden
Groups, Subcultures and Cultures
          tc.genorg.gen.hands.crib.mime.peer
Things or Places
          tc.genorg.gen.hands.crib.mime.discover
Mechanical Systems, Structural Systems, "Logic of Materials"
          tc.genorg.gen.hands.crib.mechfetish
Pre-existent Solutions
          tc.genorg.gen.hands.crib.hammer
Atomic Depth
          tc.genorg.gen.hands.crib.matfetish
Sensual Experiences as Generators
          tc.genorg.gen.sense
Scenographic Design
          tc.genorg.gen.sense.scene
Lighting
          tc.genorg.gen.sense.bright
Sound
          tc.genorg.gen.sense.loud
Scent
          tc.genorg.gen.sense.smelly
Temperature
          tc.genorg.gen.sense.cold
Tactile Experience
          tc.genorg.gen.sense.rough
Organisers
          tc.genorg.org
Grids
          tc.genorg.org.check
Unit-based Systems
          tc.genorg.org.checker
Hierarchies
          tc.genorg.org.govern
Layering
          tc.genorg.org.stack
Transparencies and Lenses
          tc.genorg.org.stack.optics
Framing
          tc.genorg.org.stack.frame
Proportion and Scale
          tc.genorg.org.sizer
Man as the Measure
          tc.genorg.org.sizer.foot
Divisions of the Octave
          tc.genorg.org.sizer.sing
Golden Number/Ratio/Section
          tc.genorg.org.sizer.cross
(Coincidental) Geometry
          tc.genorg.org.sizer.lazy
Feng Shui, Cosmic Numerology and Other Traditional Proportional Systems
          tc.genorg.org.sizer.mystic
Le Modulor
          tc.genorg.org.sizer.modulor
Plastic Number
          tc.genorg.org.sizer.plastic
Keeping up with . . .
          tc.genorg.org.joneses
Simply Marvellous
          tc.genorg.org.lineboy
Associations and Sources for Designers
          tc.assoc
Personal Experience
          tc.assoc.personal
Shared Experience
          tc.assoc.share
"Universal" Experience
          tc.assoc.universal
Associations with the Organic and the Curvaceous
          tc.assoc.organic
Associations with the Human
          tc.assoc.human
Rituals, Icons, Symbols of Group
          tc.assoc.group
Shared Judgements
          tc.assoc.fad
Associations with Stories, and Myths
          tc.assoc.myth
Contextualism, Sameness
          tc.assoc.sim
The Foreign
          tc.assoc.dif
Comprehensibility, Incomprehensibility
          tc.assoc.depth
Personal Needs
          tc.assoc.need
Play
          tc.play
The Missing Element
          tc.play.missing
Puzzle Pieces
          tc.play.missing.puzzle
Ampersand
          tc.play.missing.ampersand
Arbitrariness
          tc.play.arbitrary
The Inexact, the Multivalent
          tc.play.inexact
Mystery, Discovery, Triumph, Frustration
          tc.play.mystery
Indirection, Lying
          tc.play.mystery.culpable
Puzzles, Riddles
          tc.play.mystery.teasers
Dialectics and Contradictions
          tc.play.mystery.unsolvable
Storytelling
          tc.play.story
Universe Modelling
          tc.play.universe
Theatre
          tc.play.spectacle
Ritual
          tc.play.ritual
Breaking of Established Patterns and Rules
          tc.play.rebel
Meaning and Interpretation
          tc.play.meaning
Art and the Text
          tc.play.meaning.text
Art as Critique
          tc.play.meaning.crit
"Safe" Creation
          tc.play.safe

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