Art Oscillating Wildly?
If science is analytic and design is constructive; if science is concerned with how things are, whereas design concerns itself with how things ought to be; if science is knowledge of the natural world, and design is not intended to produce such knowledge, but to take action – if science investigates existing forms, while design initiates novel forms – is art an oscillation between science and design?1
1 A margin note while reading Kent McPhee’s ‘Design Theory and Software Design’ (p. 21). Highly recommended read!