RELATED TERMS: Objects and Events;
A design ‘is’ what it ‘does’. Although constituted by materiality in the form of ‘objects’ and ‘things’, a design ‘takes place’ as an ‘event’ in a situation. It ‘happens’, in a particular place, at a particular time for particular people.
One could argue, and it is only an argument, that such an event ‘has’ meaning, with meaning interpreted along the lines of action and actantiality.