RELATED TERMS: Collage, Montage, Assemblage and Bricolage Thrownness, Givenness, Foundness In his book Reality Hunger (2010), part of David Shields’ argument is that non-fiction is better adapted than fiction to address the realities of the modern world (Morrison, 2019). In the book, he defended his habit of quoting authors without attribution as a principled standContinue reading “Snippet Methodology: Authoring-Curating [Snippets 4]”
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Narratives of Willpower; Narratives of Disease [Snippets 3]
RELATED TERMS: “We’re transitioning from the personal failure, lacking willpower, lacking self-control narrative, to this narrative that says ‘Obesity is a disease, you need a prescribed cure’ … so we can sell weight-loss medication”. (Marquisele Mercedes, quoted in Kuchler, 2022). The context for this quote from Marquisele Mercedes, a doctoral student in public health atContinue reading “Narratives of Willpower; Narratives of Disease [Snippets 3]”
Investing, Narration, Theorisation [Snippets 2]
RELATED TERMS: A narrative of the ‘past’ is taking shape in the ‘present’ in contrast to which other narratives of the ‘future’, in the form of ‘bets’, are developing. The historical or hindsight narrative suggests that the 30 years from the 1990s to the early 2020s constituted a ‘golden’ age, a period of steady growthContinue reading “Investing, Narration, Theorisation [Snippets 2]”
Politics, Reality, Narrativity [Snippets 1]
RELATED TERMS: Unending Discourse The entries in this Snippets series are cut from larger texts. Although not explicitly focused on design practices, they operate as discourse-collage elements that aim to provoke broader discussions about the potential ethico-political value of what might otherwise be taken solely as the aesthetic value of design practices, particularly those thatContinue reading “Politics, Reality, Narrativity [Snippets 1]”
Mono No Aware and Ma
RELATED TERMS: Sabi and Wabi Sabi The human-environmental interactive dimensions of the design of narrative environments may be enhanced by a consideration of Japanese aesthetics expressed through design principles. Beginning in the Heian era (794-1185), the Japanese developed a distinct sense of aesthetic perception, including such experiences as mono no aware, ma and wabi sabi.Continue reading “Mono No Aware and Ma”
Narrative Environments
RELATED TERMS: Design of Narrative Environments; Narrative Environments – Celia Pearce; Narrative Environments – Environmental Psychology in Architecture A narrative environment is a many-dimensional, orientational interface. In one direction, it makes the world comprehensible and navigable. In another direction, it opens up to the challenges that the world presents or harbours. It may explain, butContinue reading “Narrative Environments”
Iconic Designs and Iconic Designers
RELATED TERMS: Design History; Iconic Designs, Critical Designs “Kenya Hara is a design icon.” (Design Intaba, 2004) Design is often spoken of in terms of ‘iconic’ designs[1] and ‘iconic’ designers. ‘Iconic’ designs are discussed frequently in terms of individual entities – ‘things’. ‘Iconic’ designers are individual, named designers – ‘persons’. ‘Iconic’ designs are most often productContinue reading “Iconic Designs and Iconic Designers”
Technology, Writing, Design
RELATED TERMS: Design, Entwurf, Entwerfen One area to be explored and developed in understanding design practices in the 21st century are the relationships among the notions of writing, technology and design. To what extent is the understanding of designing and designs aided by considering them as practices of writing and as bodies of writing, onContinue reading “Technology, Writing, Design”
Deutscher Werkbund
RELATED TERMS: Arts and Crafts Movement; Bauhaus; Gesamtkunstwerk; Hochschule fur Gestaltung; The Deutscher Werkbund was founded founded in Munich in 1907. It sought to bring together designers, manufacturers, writers and others in a progressive organisation that promoted modern design. The major difference between the Deutscher Werkbund and the Arts and Crafts movement was that theContinue reading “Deutscher Werkbund”
Promptography
RELATED TERMS: Artificial Intelligence (AI); Hypomnesis, Hypermnesis and Anamnesis; Large Language Models; Photography; Pseudomnesia; Remembering: Mnemonics, Mnemotechne and Memory; [Historical Trauma; Intergenerational Trauma; Hauntology – Psychoanalysis] Boris Eldagsen is a major proponent of a practice that he calls ‘promtography’ [1]. It differs from photography because, as Eldagsen explains, photography is writing with light and imageContinue reading “Promptography”
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