Abstract
To date, the relatively young disciplines of design theory and design history have very much tended to function independently of the design process. Admittedly, they reflect on the aesthetics and hawk the history of design, but they fail to propose concrete models for what designers should in fact be doing, for example, how they could approach design processes in complex times. So what conditions are required for the history, theory and practice of design to meaningfully complement one another and continue to develop in this way? And how could we envisage a theory of use that actually resulta realizable and successful?