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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