Abstract
In this chapter, I argue for an intentionalist reconstruction of artifact
design. called the "use-plan analysis." In it, design crucially involves the conslruction
and coniniunication of a use plan. After presenting an outline of the use-plan analysis,
I show that it can be used to accommodate four aspects of the phenomenology
of artifact use and design: creative use, serendipity, the unread manual, and
unknown designers; and I briefly indicate how the analysis facilitates the evaluation
of artifact use and design. From this, I conclude that the use-plan analysis
provides a phenomenologically viable, evaluatively useful, intentionalist account
of use and design.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Philosophy and design : from engineering to architecture |
| Editors | P.E. Vermaas, P. Kroes, A. Light, S.A. Moore |
| Place of Publication | Berlin |
| Publisher | Springer |
| Pages | 37-49 |
| Number of pages | 359 |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-1-4020-6590-3 |
| Publication status | Published - 2008 |