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Art and Engineering ⁑ Wesley’s Notebook

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“Art” is a infamously tricky thing to define, but I think it is reasonable to say that when you’re making aesthetic choices with the intent of shaping someone’s feelings or experience, you’re making art. At first glance, it might not seem like engineering tends to be art, since most engineers claim to be making engineering tradeoffs, rather than aesthetic choices. That, I think, is mostly people lying to themselves. Engineering is a incredibly complicated system, and the vast majority of working engineers do not work in a system with well defined goals, which means that engineering decisions have to be aesthetic — they involve subjective choices about both what goals to prioritize and how to accomplish those goals, and subjective choices are often inherently about beauty.

Art and Engineering Monday October 25, 2021 — Upper Jay, New York I think many more engineers This applies to far more people than engineers — it applies to anyone who has some form of control over the product of their labour. That unfortunately seems to be a shrinking percentage of people, but it’s still far from being completely stamped out. are producing art as a product of their work than realize it. “Art” is a infamously tricky thing to define, but I think it is reasonable to say that when you’re making aesthetic choices with the intent of shaping someone’s feelings or experience, you’re

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