“The function of what I call design science is to solve problems
by introducing into the environment new artifacts,
the availability of which will induce their spontaneous employment
by humans and thus, coincidentally,
cause humans to abandon their previous problem-producing behaviors and devices.

For example, when humans have a vital need to cross the roaring rapids of a river,
as a design scientist I would design them a bridge, causing them,
I am sure, to abandon spontaneously
and forever the risking of their lives by trying to swim to the other shore.”

R. Buckminster Fuller, from Cosmography

『コズモグラフィー』（バックミンスター・フラー著、梶川泰司訳　白揚社 2007）