USE for: Human geography, Social geography RELATED TERMS: Geography; Scape metaphors; Anthropo-Scenes Those parts of the discipline of geography which are of most value to narrative environment design and analysis are cultural geography, human geography or social geography. According to Merle Patchett (2010), three eras of cultural geography can be identified: the traditional; the new;Continue reading “Cultural Geography”
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Global Challenges – Learning
RELATED TERMS: Global Challenges; Wicked Problems – Wicked Challenges According to Nicholas Maxwell (2021), humanity is confronted by two great challenges of learning: learning about the universe; and about ourselves and other living things as a part of the universe; and learning how to create civilisation. The first challenge, Maxwell contends, has been addressed by modernContinue reading “Global Challenges – Learning”
Global Challenges
Related Terms: Wicked Problems – Wicked Challenges; World-Building “We are confronted in the twenty-first century with an array of serious problems but among them two immense challenges stand out: on the one hand, those problems presented by carbon technologies, and, on the other hand, those posed by silicon technologies.” (Daniel Ross, 2019) In the philosophyContinue reading “Global Challenges”
World-as-Milieu
RELATED TERMS: World; World Building Bernard Stiegler, in contemplating the mode of existence of the noetic soul, in other words, the (human) psychic apparatus, is led to consider what is its milieu. Ross (2018: 16) explains that, at first, Stiegler thought it must be language. However, further contemplation made him realise that it is theContinue reading “World-as-Milieu”
Wicked Problems – Wicked Challenges
RELATED TERMS: Design of Narrative Environments; Global Challenges; Global Challenges – Learning; Methodology and Method; World The underlying thesis that is at stake here is that the world, which is conceptualised as a complex narrative environment, a constructed model of reality, is enfolded in a number of wicked challenges, such as those discussed in theContinue reading “Wicked Problems – Wicked Challenges”
Design Thinking
RELATED TERMS: Design thinking is a human-centric approach to assist businesses to improve their existing products and generate new ideas about possible products and services. It is a creative approach to problem solving. Although not invented by IDEO, it has come to be closely associated with the five-step method developed by that design practice. AnContinue reading “Design Thinking”
Feminist Avant-Garde Art Practices
RELATED TERMS: Avant-garde movements; Feminism – Material feminism While themes derived from avant-garde art practice may be of relevance to design practices, of potentially more interest may be those practices of the feminist avant-garde. In confronting an oppressive and conformist patriarchal system prevalent in the in the immediate post-World War Two years, feminist artists developedContinue reading “Feminist Avant-Garde Art Practices”
Critical Thinking
RELATED TERMS: Arendt; Creative Thinking; Critical Theory; Design Practice and Functionalism; Feminism and Materialism; Genealogy – Nietzsche; Historical Materialism – Marxism; Methodology and Method; Modernism and Avant-Garde Art Practice; Modernity; Postmodernism; Theoretical Practice; Critical thinking in the West can be traced back back to the Socratic-Platonic tradition, with Plato formalising the Socratic critique of receivedContinue reading “Critical Thinking”
Critical Theory
RELATED TERMS: Avant-Garde Movements; Critical Thinking; Methodology and Method; Situationist International; Theoretical Practice; Design requires critical thinking and creative thinking, but does it need critical theory, in the more narrow sense? Bohman (2005) explains that critical theory in the narrow sense designates several generations of German philosophers and social theorists in the Western European MarxistContinue reading “Critical Theory”
Creative Thinking
RELATED TERMS: Critical Thinking; Design of Narrative Environments; Design Practice and Functionalism; Theoretical Practice “Above all, and very familiar by now, is the view that critical and creative writing have become one and are indistinguishable.” (Brooke-Rose, 1991: 19) While a design may serve a critical purpose, it does so creatively, so to speak. Designing, therefore,Continue reading “Creative Thinking”
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