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”
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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”
Design, Narratives, Pasts
RELATED TERMS: Design, Narratives, Futures Jean-Francois Lyotard (1984) contended that we were finished with grand narratives or master narratives or narratives of mastery. Nevertheless, in 2017, George Monbiot contended that the political history of the second half of the 20th century could be summarised as the conflict between its two great narratives: the stories told,Continue reading “Design, Narratives, Pasts”
Alltäglichkeit
RELATED TERMS: The Everyday and Design; Alienation Alltäglichkeit – Lefebvre, Lukács, Heidegger Alltäglichkeit is a German word meaning everydayness. Michel Trebitsch (2014: 13) highlights a curious affinity between Georg Lukács and Henri Lefebvre, by way of Heidegger, concerning the use of that term. The issue for design practices, from the perspective of Incomplete …, concerns aContinue reading “Alltäglichkeit”
Finnegans Wake (and Design)
RELATED TERMS: Design: Incomplete Conjectures “The Wake, fin negans, begets only beginnings but invalidates all origins…” (Rabaté, 1984: 79) In the understanding of design being constructed in the Incomplete … website, design can be grasped in four main modalities: as a set of professional practices, sub-divided by (industrial era and digital era) designed outputs; as academicContinue reading “Finnegans Wake (and Design) “
Fordism and Post-Fordism
RELATED TERMS: Actantiality; Disciplinary Societies and Societies of Control; Remembering; Introduction: Design practices, political-economic and socio-cultural conditions Design practices are contextualised by the political-economic and the socio-cultural circumstances in which they are invented and deployed as specific responses that are considered appropriate to those circumstances. For example, design practices may take up different roles in aContinue reading “Fordism and Post-Fordism”
User-Centred and User-Driven Design
RELATED TERMS: Co-Design; Design Practice and Functionalism; Lack, Loss and User-Centred Design Practices Koskinen and Thomson (2012: 79) differentiate between user-centred design and user-driven design. User-centred design means that design innovation is focused on users’ needs and the delivery of new benefits to them in their use of products, services, environments, systems, and so on.Continue reading “User-Centred and User-Driven Design”
Feminism and Materialism
RELATED TERMS: Critical thinking; Cultural Studies; Design of Narrative Environments; The Everyday and Design; Feminist Avant-Garde Art Practices; Historical Materialism – Marxism; Methodology and Method; New Materialism; Phenomenology; Postmodernism Spatial practices, and not only in Western countries, are radically gendered. Feminist analyses, particularly those that emphasise the performative character of gender ‘identity’ as processes ofContinue reading “Feminism and Materialism”
Ontological Turn
RELATED TERMS: New Materialism; Ontological Designing; Ontology; Performance and Performativity; Practice; According to Andrew Pickering (2017), citing Woolgar and Lezaun (2013, 2015) and Kelly (2014), the social-constructivist consensus has broken down in the early 21st century. In response, both anthropology and science and technology studies have taken an ontological turn. This ontological turn in scienceContinue reading “Ontological Turn”
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