… or is it >>Design<<? Anyway, food for thought courtesy of Michael K. Speaks and our ever-reliable Ivan Ostapenko:
http://molotok.ca/freshmeat/?p=126
I really like his thinking about what design can accomplish when applied to real-world problems, and not just sterile games with form.
There are other tasty morsels there too, so be sure to dig around a bit. Not your usual dry architectural fare.