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”
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Design History
RELATED TERMS: Design and Theory: Total Design, Total Theory; Design History and Racialism [Footnote]; 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 centuryContinue 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”
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”
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