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”
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[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”
Modernism
RELATED TERMS: Avant-garde movements; Design History; Postmodernism; Utopia and Utopian thinking; Design practice and functionalism; Defamiliarisation, Ostranenie or making strange; Modernity; Dasein; Everyday Eagleton (2021) states that, “Modernism is among other things a crisis of narration, as the world ceases to be story-shaped. History is no longer informed by the plot once known as progress.Continue reading “Modernism”
Exosomatisation
RELATED TERMS: Endosomatisation; [Of] Grammatography; Hypomnesis, Hypermnesis and Anamnesis; Remembering: Mnemotechne, Mnemonics and Memory Exosomatisation is the process of technical exteriorisation of cognition and memory. Nevertheless, Agamben (Agamben and Pensotti, 2021) warns, in relation to the progressive digitisation and robotisation of life, “every exosomatic technical progress corresponds to a regression of the endosomatic functions. ButContinue reading “Exosomatisation”
Agonism and Design
RELATED TERMS: Agon; Khora or Chora Originally developed in relation to the work of artists and architects by Jane Rendell (2006), critical spatial practice has since expanded to include discourse among designers, geographers, planners, landscape architects, activists and philosophers. According to Max Willis (2019), three core principles of agonism, in relation to design practices, canContinue reading “Agonism and Design”
Feminist Spatial Practices
RELATED TERMS: Spatial Practices As Schalk et al (2017) note, spatial practices is a broad term for architectural, artistic, design and other disciplinary and interdisciplinary practices engaged in studying and transforming space. Feminism, because feminist politics believes that things can be otherwise and that they can be changed, offers an optimistic outlook on the future.Continue reading “Feminist Spatial Practices”
Vocatives
RELATED TERMS: Remembering; A vocative expression is one in which a person is directly referred to in dialogue, for example, by their name, their job title or position or by a term of endearment, respect or disrespect. In the context of writing, vocatives can serve several purposes, such as, to help readers to keep track ofContinue reading “Vocatives”
Remembering: Mnemonics, Mnemotechne and Memory
RELATED TERMS: [Of] Grammatography; Hypomnesis, Hypermnesis and Anamnesis; Exosomatisation; Learning “Cities are made of sedimented strata of memory” (Adams, 2021) Frances Joseph (2010: 302) points out that mnemotechne is an archaic term for how memory and thought are fundamentally related to the inorganic through the world’s materiality. As such, she comments, it may well be theContinue reading “Remembering: Mnemonics, Mnemotechne and Memory”
Technology
RELATED TERMS: Remembering: Mnemonics, Mnemotechne and Memory [Katie] Hafner: I’ve heard Bran [Ferren] say before that he thinks technology should be invisible. [Danny] Hillis: Good technology ceases to become technology. You don’t think of a pencil as technology, because it just does what it’s supposed to do. You don’t think of a book as technology, becauseContinue reading “Technology”
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