I don't like the easy proposing of new aspects such as the 'operational'. I see the higher aspects as providing the purpose, the meaning, for doing things in earlier aspects. Both, of course, come together in architecture. The difference between design and production is instructive. Donald suggests that design is Hebrew while production is Greek, especially Aristotle.
Design involves true formativity.
I think perhaps that productino is largely physical. It is this attachment to the physical, and consequently with determinstic causality, that gives production its mechanical flavour. Now, it seems that technology-formativity has been contaminated with this idea of production. But I do not see technology as this in its essence. Technology is creative and exciting, in its rightful state.