RELATED TERMS: Design Practice and Functionalism; User-Centred and User-Driven Design As defined by Koskinen and Thomson (2012: 77) co-design is a community centred methodology that designers use to enable people who will be served by a designed outcome to participate in designing solutions to their problems. This assumes a utilitarian, design-as-problem-solving approach. It should beContinue reading “Co-Design”
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Cinema and Film Theory
RELATED TERMS: Filmmaking; Theoretical practice; Apparatus – Dispositif; Rhythm David Macey (2000: 252) informs us that the French film theorist Christian Metz, in his later work, expands on the distinction that he made between film and cinema. He defines cinema as the extra-filmic apparatus of an industry, but also all the psychological forces that makeContinue reading “Cinema and Film Theory”
Body
RELATED TERMS: Biopolitics and Biopower; Disciplinary Societies and Societies of Control; Place, Space, Placiality, Spatiality; Sensorimotor System; Somatosensory System “Simone de Beauvoir argues that the body is a situation — a set of material givens whose value shifts depending on context … [For Donna Haraway,] the body is the vantage point from which one makesContinue reading “Body”
Biopolitics and Biopower
RELATED TERMS: Apparatus – Dispositif; Body; Politics and the political; Disciplinary societies and Societies of control; Psychopower The term biopolitics or biopower is defined by Foucault (2007: 16) as, “the set of mechanisms through which the basic biological features of the human species became the object of a political strategy, of a general strategy of power,Continue reading “Biopolitics and Biopower”
Being, Doing, Having
RELATED TERMS: Objects and Events; A design ‘is’ what it ‘does’. Although constituted by materiality in the form of ‘objects’ and ‘things’, a design ‘takes place’ as an ‘event’ in a situation. It ‘happens’, in a particular place, at a particular time for particular people. One could argue, and it is only an argument, thatContinue reading “Being, Doing, Having”
Avant-Garde Movements
RELATED TERMS: Agonism and Avant-Gardism; Aleatory; Alienation Effect (Verfremdungseffekt); Critical Theory; Defamiliarisation; Design of Narrative Environments; Dissensus – Ranciere; Distribution of the Sensible – Ranciere; Epic Theatre – Brecht; Feminist Avant-Garde Art Practices; Happenings; Methodology and Method; Modernism; Modernism and Avant-Garde Art Practices; Modernity; Ontological Metalepsis; Research Methodologies; Sabi and Wabi-Sabi; Situationist International; Theatre ofContinue reading “Avant-Garde Movements”
Author, Authority
RELATED TERMS: Intertextuality; Intersemioticity In the context of design practices, the concept of authorship is troubled, in part because the purity of the kind of ‘authorship’ that pertains to the writer of a book, as sole author, and the kind of ‘authority’ which accrues to such an author over time, does not often apply toContinue reading “Author, Authority”
Audience
RELATED TERMS: Film making; Graphic Design; Music; Narrative environment design; Performance; Theatre; Human Actantiality; Realism; Reception theory and reader-response criticism; Epic theatre – Brecht Audience comes from the latin audire meaning to hear. Nonetheless, it is used in film, theatre and performance to describe what might more naturally be called the spectators or viewers, as it isContinue reading “Audience”
Arendt
RELATED TERMS: Heidegger; Critical Thinking See also essay: Arendt, Phenomenology and the Design of Narrative Environments Why are the writings of Hannah Arendt, 1906-1975, important for design practices? They are important because she focuses on the active life in its many aspects: we labour, we work, we act and we think or judge, as sheContinue reading “Arendt”
Architecture
RELATED TERMS: Distribution of the Sensible – Ranciere; Interaction Design; Narratology; Sculpture; Urban design; “the sense of architectural space is … related to the political distribution of the sensible and the way it frames reality through fiction.” (Grabar, 2021: 279) Rowan Moore (2014) argues that it is a terrible misconception to think that architecture isContinue reading “Architecture”
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