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”
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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 The design of narrative environments, as a field of practice, is an example of research-led or research-informed designing. It may also be a means ofContinue 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; It may be of value in thinking about the design of narrative environments, as a particular kind of, or approach to design, to consider it inContinue 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”
First Things First Manifesto
RELATED TERMS: Ken Garland wrote and proclaimed the First Things First manifesto in 1963 at the Institute of Contemporary Arts. It was first published in January 1964. Co-signed by 21 colleagues, the manifesto proposed that design effort should re-directed, away from advertising towards more worthwhile, purposeful activities. A second version, entitled First Things First 2000,Continue reading “First Things First Manifesto”
[Of] Grammatography
RELATED TERMS: Exosomatisation; Remembering: Mnemotechne, Mnemonics and Memory; Hypomnesis, Hypermnesis and Anamnesis; Design, Entwurf, Entwerpen; Fiction “…the pharmakon of writing is good for hypomnesis (re-memoration, recollection, consignation) and not for mneme (living, knowing memory) that Thamus, in the Phaedrus, condemns … as being of little worth.” Derrida, J. (1981). Dissemination. London, UK: Athlone Press, p.91 According to Christopher Johnson (2013), Bernard Stiegler reformulatesContinue reading “[Of] Grammatography”
Modernism and Avant-Garde Art Practices
RELATED TERMS: Modernism; Avant-garde movements; Socially engaged art; Critical thinking; Agonism and avant-gardism; Dissensus – Ranciere Design practice has long been influenced by art practice, and vice versa, for example, the minimalism of the 1960s and 1970s influenced graphic and industrial design, in one direction, while modernist art of the early 20th century incorporated designedContinue reading “Modernism and Avant-Garde Art Practices”
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