RELATED TERMS: Analepsis and Prolepsis; Arendt; Epic theatre – Brecht; Mimesis and Diegesis; Story (fabula) and Plot (sjuzet); Theatre; Theatre of Cruelty; The importance of tragic theatre for design practices is threefold. First, it places great importance on plot construction and the effects upon the audience that such plotting can achieve. Second, it emphasisesContinue reading “Tragic Theatre – Aristotle”
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Telos and Teleology
RELATED TERMS: Narratology; Philosophy “The study of design is linked, historically and conceptually, to teleology. Since Plato and Aristotle, the apparent orderliness of sensible objects has inspired reflection upon first principles. As William Paley suggested in his proof of God’s existence, whatever appears to have been designed – whether natural or artificial – provides anContinue reading “Telos and Teleology”
Disciplinary Societies and Societies of Control
RELATED TERMS: Affordances; Apparatus – Dispositif; Biopolitics and Biopower; Body; Burnout Society; Fordism and Post-Fordism; Libidinal Economy Environmental design outputs, such as narrative environments, could be said to form domains or territories with their own characteristic habits, rules, regulations and laws, a kind of ‘world’ or ‘universe’. In order to develop a sense of howContinue reading “Disciplinary Societies and Societies of Control”
Diegetic Levels
RELATED TERMS: Diegese; Use for Narrative levels. See also Frame narratives and Embedded narratives Diegetic levels are also referred to as narrative levels, for example, the English translation of Gerard Genette’s book Narrative Discourse talks of narrative levels. The notion is used to describe the relations between an act of narration and the diégèse, i.e. the story as a wholeContinue reading “Diegetic Levels”
Détournement
RELATED TERMS: Alienation effect (Verfremdungseffekt); Defamiliarisation, Ostranenie or making strange; Psychogeography; Situationist International Within the practice of designing narrative environments, détournement may usefully be articulated with ontological metalepsis, as a creative and critical technique. Détournement is the reuse of preexisting artistic elements in a new ensemble. It has been a constantly present tendency of theContinue reading “Détournement”
Design Practice and Functionalism
RELATED TERMS: Co-Design; Creative Thinking; Critical Thinking; Design History; Design of Narrative Environments; Latour; Modernism; Modernity; Ontological Designing; Philosophy; Postmodernism; Practice; Product Design and Industrial Design; Theoretical Practice; User-Centred and User-Driven Design; Utopia and Utopian Thinking; Design practices lie at an intersection. They intersect social practices taking place within, while re-shaping, public space; commercial practicesContinue reading “Design Practice and Functionalism”
Design of Narrative Environments
RELATED TERMS: Design Practice and Functionalism; Human Actantiality; Latour; Methodology and Method; Modernity; Narrative Environments; Narrative Environments – Celia Pearce; Narrative Environments – Environmental Psychology in Architecture; Ontological Designing; World-Building; Worldlessness #1; Worldlessness #2: Worldlessness and Design ” ‘the environment’ is not a location; rather, it is ‘the everywhere’ — the inner and outer; theContinue reading “Design of Narrative Environments”
Design History
RELATED TERMS: Design and Theory: Total Design, Total Theory; Design Practice and Functionalism; Iconic Designs and Iconic Designers; Lifeworld – Lebenswelt – Umwelt; Modernism; Modernity; Ontological Designing; Theoretical Practice; “Every age has its own distinctive building type. For the 19th century it was the railway station, for the 20th century it was the skyscraper. ForContinue reading “Design History”
Dérive
RELATED TERMS: Alienation effect – Verfremdungseffekt; Avant-garde movements; Defamiliarisation, Ostranenie or making strange; Detournement; Method and methodology; Psychogeography; Situationist International In Debord’s theorisation of Situationism, dérive, détournement and psychogeography are closely aligned practices. Dérive translates literally as drifting but it is a more active and purposefully disorienting strategy than this rather neutral term suggests. DebordContinue reading “Dérive”
Computer Science
RELATED TERMS: Interaction; Interaction design; Taxonomy Paul Dourish (2004) brings to attention Matthew Chalmers’ observation that computer science is based on philosophical assumptions and arguments that were prevalent before the 1930s. Dourish continues, “Computer-science in practice involves reducing high-level behaviors to low-level, mechanical explanations, formalizing them through pure scientific rationality; in this, computer science revealsContinue reading “Computer Science”
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