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<DIV>Hi All,</DIV>
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<DIV>Regarding design <EM>practice</EM>, of course the "program" is made of
actual people...</DIV>
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<DIV>The poor administrators, fund-raisers, politicians and business sharks who
are devoted to developing something, the artists and designers with ideas and
with no ideas, the stalwarts of surprising variety who are actually in a
position to last through the years that it takes to get one
thing built, and rarely several...</DIV>
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<DIV>An then, all the people who will experience the work, the "audience", the
creators, the public, the press, the writers and their readers, the theorists,
the maintenance institutions and workers... Should we try to rank the
importance of these human beings to the enterprise?</DIV>
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<DIV>Regarding design practice, "program" is 90 percent of the substance of any
project, in my experience. And the program is made of the people who will
be creating the experience, including the instigators and the audience.</DIV>
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<DIV>3 tests of a work of (public) art:</DIV>
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<DIV>1) Who gets to see it?</DIV>
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<DIV>2) What does it make them think about?</DIV>
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<DIV>3) How does it make them feel?</DIV>
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<DIV>A possible 4th test:</DIV>
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<DIV>4) What does it make them do?</DIV>
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<DIV>Best wishes,</DIV>
<DIV>sk</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT lang=0 face=Arial size=2 PTSIZE="10" FAMILY="SANSSERIF">Stephen
Korns<BR>Artist, Consultant in Urban Design, specialist in Public
Art<BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT lang=0 face=Arial size=2 PTSIZE="10" FAMILY="SANSSERIF">New
York</DIV></FONT></FONT></FONT></BODY></HTML>