RELATED TERMS: Actant; Anthropo-Scenes; Anthropocene – Capitalocene – Chthulucene; Plantationocene; Humanism; Object-Oriented Ontology; Postanthropocentrism; Posthuman; Realism; Speculative Realism Similarly to the term postanthropocentrism, the value of the concept of posthumanism for design practices is that it invites a reconsideration of the relationships among the narrative, the environmental and the human aspects of the overall design. That is,Continue reading “Posthumanism”
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Posthuman
RELATED TERMS: Anthropo-Scenes; Anthropocene – Capitalocene – Chthulucene; Plantationocene; Humanism; Object-Oriented Ontology; Postanthropocentrism; Posthumanism; Ferrando (2013) states that the term ‘posthuman’ has become a key term in contemporary academic debate. It addresses an urgent need for an integral redefinition of the notion of the human, following the onto-epistemological as well as scientific and bio-technological developments ofContinue reading “Posthuman”
Postanthropocentrism
RELATED TERMS: Anthropo-Scenes; Anthropocene – Capitalocene – Chthulucene; Plantationocene; Humanism; Object-Oriented Ontology; Posthuman; Posthumanism; Speculative Realism The idea of ‘postanthropocentrism’, which questions the human exceptionalism and methodological individualism of certain strands of humanist traditions, is a key focus of posthumanist thinking. It is a rethinking the human in its necessary relations to the nonhuman others, such asContinue reading “Postanthropocentrism”
Politics and the Political
RELATED TERMS: Agonistic politics – Mouffe; Dissensus – Ranciere; Distribution of the sensible; Biopolitics and Biopower; Arendt; Heidegger; Lefebvre Specific narrative environments, whether explicitly designed or not, may be said to be ‘political’ or to have political effects in some sense. In order to define more clearly what might be meant by this kind ofContinue reading “Politics and the Political”
Poiesis
RELATED TERMS: Philosophy; Praxis; Poiesis is a Greek term that means making, producing, creation, creative power or ability. Poiesis is contrasted with praxis, which means ‘doing’ or ‘acting’, by Plato and Aristotle. Excellent making requires techne, skill, while excellent doing requires arete, virtue. The question for design practices is whether the design process and the design outcome are modes of productionContinue reading “Poiesis”
Placemaking
RELATED TERMS: World-Building Placemaking is about the collaboration between all elements which make the whole, coming to life through its use. It is our experience of place that gives it meaning. Placemaking is the art of creating public ‘places of the soul,’ that uplift and help us connect to each other; “making a Public SpaceContinue reading “Placemaking”
Place, Space, Placiality, Spatiality
RELATED TERMS: Body; Khora or Chora; Phenomenology; Time Place Places are events; they ‘take place’ over extended periods of time. Places are sensible, perceivable by the senses, and intelligible, existing in thought, in the imagination and in the memory. They also constitute a third order, khôra or chora, an interval between the sensible and theContinue reading “Place, Space, Placiality, Spatiality”
Painting
RELATED TERMS: Visual Arts and Visual Media; Photography Painting is the central, canonical medium of art history. ‘The truth in painting’ is a saying of Cezanne’s. Cezanne wrote to Emile Bernard in 1905 that, “I owe you the truth in painting and I will tell it to you”. The power ascribed to painting, Derrida (1987) argues,Continue reading “Painting”
Photography
RELATED TERMS: Painting; Apparatus – Dispositif; Promptography In the context of design practices, photography is one of the many media that may be employed, often as part of a multi-media, multi-modal environment or assemblage. As the history of the cultural and artistic disruption caused by photography shows, the use of any particular medium alters the balance ofContinue reading “Photography”
Philosophy
RELATED TERMS: Design and Philosophy; Design practice and Functionalism; Phenomenology; Genealogy – Nietzsche; Heidegger; Human Actantiality; Dasein; Epistemology; Ontology; Poeisis; Nihilism “Where to begin in philosophy has always – rightly – been regarded as a very delicate problem, for beginning means eliminating all presuppositions.” (Gilles Deleuze, 1994: 129) “The point is not to gain someContinue reading “Philosophy”
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