I agree with the need for a radical reflexivity in design - it's an essential part of developing a rich and thoughtful design practice - how, as a designer, one articulates and declares your own positions, values and prejudices is important if a clear direction, or manifesto, is to be reached.
I'm interested in trying to work out the structure of a manifesto - a meta-manifesto or metafesto - what does a manifesto need to contain? Reflexivity is one key element, the self-reflexive engagement with your own, internalised, design process (i.e. We shall design by... ), but also it needs elements of engagement with outside agents and contexts. Now this starts to move into a ethical dimension, so it's important to keep the language and mechanism of articulation open and flexible.
I like the idea of creating heat, forging an idea in the fires of discourse ;-) How does a design position emerge from heated debate? What drives the debate - could it be any controversy?
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