“Design theory is not just for elites in the 21st century. They cannot and will not (incapable and unwilling) prevent this from happening. This, in case anyone has not noticed, is the (primary) crisis opportunity of the 21st century.”
Name/label, most prevalent
Primary (known) author/proponent
Design realm
Chronology-(by Redisc.) Initial Knowledge ‘Rediscovery’ Gap Why?
ONTOLOGICAL:
1.Design Physics-Galaxy Old Kingdom Egypt Ibrahim ’poorly grounded’ Kamir, ? mil.-ind.-complex?
‘BioGeometry’; ‘Sacred Geometry’ Walter ‘artist’ Russell, R. Sheldrake
2.’Human Design’-Soul (prehist. I-E astrol… Rah ‘cult’ Hu, Chetan Parkyn …just an innov.
…+2ndmBCE YiJing[1]) …40 centuries too sexist?
[COSMOLOGICAL/PHILOSOPHICAL[2]: (Religion]
(3).Gnostic-Sufism[3] c.100’s; 600’s JRR ‘occult’ Tolkien; S. Hoeller 18 centuries ‘too anarchic’?
(n/a Suffism) (n/a Suffism)
NORMATIVE:
4.’Design culture’-Micro (prehist./pre-state) Ed ‘mad scientist’ DeBono ? specialization-bureacratiz.
5.Design culture-Macro Solon Bill ‘commy’ Still/Reforum 23 centuries insuffic.comm.techn.
[aka] ‘Monetary Auth.’
Most of the ‘Rediscoverers’ ‘nicknames’ are ironic in that they represent something much closer to what
the Rediscoverer is actually seeking to avoid or overcome.
[1] “Yijing” derivation, from the 2nd millennium BCE origins, to its suppression in the 1960’s Cultural Revolution, appears not to have been systematically used in conjunction with birthdays, as is/was Indo-European astrology. Using YJ in natal chart calculations thus seems to be an (international) innovation of the latter 20th century, as initiated by Carl Jung (1875–1961) and a number of his less famous students, so the story goes, in the 1960s.
[2] more like a bridge between the Ontological (‘what is’) and the Normative (‘what should be’) than its own distinct category. Tolkien, often identified as “gnostic”, placed a most critical emphasis on creativity & design in his works.
[3] “Michael [1ref.] seems to have been eclipsed somewhat by Gabriel [6refs.] in the Gnostic works, at least in those which have survived” (Hannah, 1999, p. 169). “The acquisition of knowledge through contemplation is at the heart of Gnostic Sufism” (Koen, 2009, 126).